Kenny Rampton’s list of Mingus Titles
Trumpeter Kenny Rampton (and his friends) posted on Facebook a great list of descriptive Mingus composition titles … I thought they were cool and so pasted them here.
(That is Kenny leading the Mingus Band band trumpet section at the Jazz Standard. They usually play 2 sets Monday Nights. Sorry about quality, blame my Cellphone [or as my grandma says CelleryPhone])
* The Shoes of The Fisherman’s Wife are Some Jive Ass Slippers
* All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother (based on All The Things You Are)
* Wham Bam, Thank You Ma’am! (based on What Is This Thing Called Love).
* Passions Of A Woman Loved
*”If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats” (aka Gunslingin’ Birds) (also name of a popular blog)
*Don’t Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me
*Meditations For A Pair Of Wire Cutters
* Love is a Dangerous Necessity
* Sweet Sucker Dance
* Mingus Fingers
* Nostalgia in times square
* Going out for some cheese, care to join me?
* Ecclusiastics
* The only way to chase a bird is to to do it with magic
* Eat That Chicken
* Oh Lord
* Pithecanthropus Erectus
* Fables Of Faubus
*Reincarnation Of A Lovebird
*Don’t Be Afraid The Clowns Afraid Too
*Passions Of A Woman Loved
*Pithecanthropus Erectus
*I Am Three
*Better Git Hit in your Soul
*Viverito The Man Who Never Sleeps
*I of Hurricane Sue
*Ysabel’s Table Dance
*The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines
*Goodbye Pork-Pie Hat
*The Children’s Hour Of Dream
*Don’t Let It Happen Here
*IxLove
*2BS
*Remember Rockefeller at Attica
*Hamburger Helper
*Orange was the Color of her Dress, Than Blue Silk
Anyone care to add to the list?
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