Pithecanthropus Erectus (45 rpm) YO350LPE Even though it wasn’t regarded

Even though it wasn’t regarded at the time as more than a regular recording session by professional jazzmen

It's striking

as well as Manchester Jazz Festival and Jazz North

but his incantory style of singing appears markedly finer and more flexible

but produced from the other side of the ocean by Norman Granz

Pithecanthropus Erectus (45 rpm) YO350LPE Even though it wasn’t regardedThe epic Pithecanthropus Erectus is one of Charles Minguss earliest large scale works. As he explained at the time, It depicts musically my conception of the modern counterpart of the first man to stand erect how proud he was. It was initially underrated but as this 10 and a half minute emotional roller coaster reveals it has more than stood the test of time.