Charles Mingus - Better Git Hit in Your Soul mp3 download

Like falling backwards into a pool filled with shipping peanuts

Just getting into jazz -- Art Blakey brought me here. This is amazing stuff!

If you want to cut through all the bullshit of modern culture,and to cleanse your soul, you have come to the right place!

The first time I heard Mingus in the Three Deuces, this was sometime after the war, my teeth nearly fell out. Even my wife, who hated jazz at the time, said afterward she had never been so transfixed by a "mere bass player," and asked if I might introduce him to her. Naturally, I demurred. For years after that night, she would, whenever I played Mingus at home, fall into a dreamy longing (as if she were saying in her mind, "Ah - the one that got away"), something I still find, after more than two thirds of a century, a bit unsettling.

Imagine. People had the patience to sit in rooms and Listen to the finest minds of their generation. Listen. Somewhere white men in suits had the smarts to make sure we could. Feature that.

Happy Juneteenth. This is the first song I thought of to celebrate with.

I often wonder if this was an out take from Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting....

why do I understand this type of humour in this comment section for this jazz music piece. like on a whole other level.

First time I heared this tune was when I was just 2 or 3 yrs old watching Hungarian cartoon Gustav. Intro in the cartoon is the riff from "Better get it in your soul"... Growing up with European cartoons like Gustav, La Linea, Lolek i Bolek, Le Piaf, Baltazar, etc. made me a jazz lover for life.