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Track: Mood Indigo
Artist: Charles Mingus
Album: Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

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Name: Charles Mingus
Spotify Genres: jazz, hard bop, bebop, free jazz, cool jazz
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American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist. Born: 22 April 1922 in Nogales, Arizona, USA. Died: 5 January 1979 in Cuernavaca, Mexico (aged 56). Mingus was a forerunner in double bass technique, he also pioneered in overdubbing and cutting-up/reassembling tapes of different takes in the studio to achieve the best possible version to put on record. He also authored an autobiographical novel called "Beneath The Underdog". He died of Lou Gehrig's disease.

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Release: Charles Mingus - Mood Indigo
Year: 2003
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Hard Bop, Post Bop

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LYRICS

You ain't never been blue; no, no, no,
You ain't never been blue,
Till you've had that mood indigo.
That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes
While I just sit here and sigh, "Go 'long blues".

I always get that mood indigo,
Since my baby said goodbye.
And in the evenin' when the lights are low,
I'm so lonely I could cry.
'Cause there's nobody who cares about me,
I'm just a poor fool that's bluer than blue can be.
When I get that mood indigo,
I could lay me down and die.

You ain't never been blue; no, no, no,
You ain't never been blue,
Till you've had that mood indigo.
That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes
While I just sit here and sigh, "Go 'long blues".