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Weird Nightmare: Meditations On Mingus

Various Artists

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Released: Sep 1992
Label: Columbia Records
Impresario Hal Willner pulls off a neat hat trick by giving you two tribute albums for the price of one. Willner gets such artists as Elvis Costello, Robbie Robertson, Chuck D., and Henry Rollins to perform the beatnik-styled items in Charles Mingus' extraordinary jazz songbook while backing them with the freaky instruments created by the avant-gardist Harry Partch.
- Nick Dedina
Various Artists - Weird Nightmare: Meditations On Mingus 1992-10-29
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    3:20
    Canon (Part 1)
    Canon (Part 1)
    Meditations On Mingus
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    3:45
    Meditations On Integration
    Meditations On Integration
    Meditations On Mingus
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    Canon (Part 2) (with Robbie Robertson)
    Canon (Part 2) (with Robbie Robertson)
    Robbie Robertson
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    3:57
    Jump Monk
    Jump Monk
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    3:02
    Weird Nightmare
    Weird Nightmare
    Elvis Costello
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    6:53
    Work Song
    Work Song
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    3:28
    Self-Portrait In 3 Colors
    Self-Portrait In 3 Colors
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    2:38
    Purple Heart (with Henry Rollins)
    Purple Heart (with Henry Rollins)
    Henry Rollins
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    5:36
    Tonight At Noon
    Tonight At Noon
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    1:42
    Gunslinging Bird Or If Charlie Parker Were A Gunslinger, ...
    Gunslinging Bird Or If Charlie Parker Were A Gunslinger, There'd Be A Whole Lot Of Dead Copycats (with Chuck D)
    Meditations On Mingus
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    Weird Nightmare (interlude)
    Weird Nightmare (interlude)
    Meditations On Mingus
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    4:48
    Reincarnation Of A Love Bird / Haitian Fight Song Montage
    Reincarnation Of A Love Bird / Haitian Fight Song Montage
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    4:52
    Open Letter To Duke
    Open Letter To Duke
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    2:37
    The Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers
    The Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers
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    Oh Lord, Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me (with...
    Oh Lord, Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me (with Charlie Watts/Keith Richards)
    Meditations On Mingus
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    7:15
    Eclipse (with Leonard Cohen/Diamanda Galas)
    Eclipse (with Leonard Cohen/Diamanda Galas)
    Meditations On Mingus
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    5:43
    Pithecanthropus Erectus
    Pithecanthropus Erectus
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    Freedom (with Dr. John)
    Freedom (with Dr. John)
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    Weird Nightmare (reprise)
    Weird Nightmare (reprise)
    Meditations On Mingus