MINGUS, CHARLIE – TIJUANA MOODS Gangsta Rap The package also includes previously

The package also includes previously unpublished photos that convey the seedy chaos that was the band’s métier

Cro Memory Grin is a masterpiece

It’s likely to leave newcomers to the delights of Eastern bloc punk wanting more and

migrated to Chicago from the Mississippi region

MINGUS, CHARLIE – TIJUANA MOODS Gangsta Rap The package also includes previouslyAll the music in this album was written during a very blue period in my life, the bassist Charles Mingus observed in the liner notes to Tijuana Moods. Recorded a little over 60 years ago, on July 18 and August 6, 1957, its an album that remains unique not only in the Mingus discography but also in jazz as a whole. Less an expression of Mexican musical influence than a personal evocation of a place, the album belongs to a vibrant category of border