Folk Forms

In my less-perused book of cds i came across Charlie Mingus' Folk Forms. It was given to me by a non-jazz fan, so I had always had the misguided idea that it probably wasn't very hip. I'm kind of a moron sometimes, I guess. Anyway, there is some great Jackie Mclean(i see alot of compositional influence come out on Jackie's Destination Out. He and good ol' Grachan Moncur III were definately brought up with Mingus) and some extremely musical Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet. I actually dig his playing on this a little more than other more stylistically advanced Dolphy i've heard(which i admit is not a real impressive amount). Mingus, of course, sounds stellar. I look forward to spending more time with this record.