MINGUS, CHARLIE – TIJUANA MOODS Gangsta Rap These RICH KIDS ON LSD

These RICH KIDS ON LSD whip out thrash with some slight metal tinges

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The package also includes previously unpublished photos that convey the seedy chaos that was the band’s métier

MINGUS, CHARLIE – TIJUANA MOODS Gangsta Rap These RICH KIDS ON LSDAll the music in this album was written during a very blue period in my life, the bassist Charles Mingus observed in the liner notes to Tijuana Moods. Recorded a little over 60 years ago, on July 18 and August 6, 1957, its an album that remains unique not only in the Mingus discography but also in jazz as a whole. Less an expression of Mexican musical influence than a personal evocation of a place, the album belongs to a vibrant category of border