Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah - Analogue Productions SACD

Hybrid Stereo SACD!Plays in All CD and SACD Players! Atlantic 75 Historic Reissue Series from Analogue Productions! Oh Yeah is a studio album by Charles Mingus, released in April 1962 by Atlantic Records. It was recorded in 1961, and features Mingus (usually known to play bass) singing on three of the cuts and playing piano throughout. In a five-star review for AllMusic, Steve Huey wrote: "After several sessions with Columbia and Candid, Charles Mingus briefly returned to Atlantic and cut the freewheeling Oh Yeah, which has to rank as the wildest of all his classic albums. Mingus plays no bass whatsoever, hiring Doug Watkins to fill in while he accompanies the group on piano and contributes bluesy vocals to several tracks (while shouting encouragement on nearly all of them). Mingus had always had a bizarre sense of humor, as expressed in some of his song titles and arranging devices, but Oh Yeah often gets downright warped. That's partly because Mingus is freed up to vocalize more of