UNCONVENTION22: Steve Crocker: Musican, jazz promoter

“Well, it's Charlie Mingus’s “Mingus AhUm”. And it was what turned me on to Mingus. So I'm a bass player as well as being a jazz organiser and it's a classic bass players album you know all the tunes “Better Get it into Your Soul”, “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”, Boogie Stop Shuffle”. {quote}Fables of Faubus{quote}, {quote}Pussy Cat Dues{quote} they’re all classic Mingus arrangements and classic Mingus bass playing. I found it in Norwich Market when I was 17 - not bad eh? Yeah, been with me ever since and I play it all the time.”Steve Crocker: Leeds College of Music, 21st July 2019Charles Mingus: {quote}Mingus Ah Um{quote} released 1959Steve Crocker - Jazz Leeds
Steve Crocker: Musican, jazz promoter, Charles Mingus: Mingus AhUm

 

“Well, it's Charlie Mingus’s “Mingus AhUm”. And it was what turned me on to Mingus. So I'm a bass player as well as being a jazz organiser and it's a classic bass players album you know all the tunes “Better Get it into Your Soul”, “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”, Boogie Stop Shuffle”. "Fables of Faubus", "Pussy Cat Dues" they’re all classic Mingus arrangements and classic Mingus bass playing. I found it in Norwich Market when I was 17 - not bad eh? Yeah, been with me ever since and I play it all the time.” 

Steve Crocker: Leeds College of Music, 21st July 2019 

Charles Mingus: "Mingus Ah Um" released 1959 

Steve Crocker - Jazz Leeds