Mingus Ah Um by Mofi

When you get up around $125- or even when you don’t, any time sound quality is paramount- save your money and look for it at Better Records. A White Hot Mingus does cost substantially more. However it sounds so much better its hard to believe.

millercarbon5,116 posts07-10-2020 1:58pmWhen you get up around $125- or even when you don’t, any time sound quality is paramount- save your money and look for it at Better Records. A White Hot Mingus does cost substantially more. However it sounds so much better its hard to believe.

I tend to disagree with you more often than not and here is yet another example. 

And your point is... that you tend to be wrong a lot?

How many White Hot Stampers have you heard?

I’m gonna say: zero. Which makes me... right again.

If you had you would’ve said so. Right yet again. So you took a shot at me for no good reason and fell flat on your face.

Hope it was worth it. Oh well. I enjoyed it. More than you. At least we can agree on that much.

So guys, isn't this a matter of opinion, not right and wrong?  And neither of you has heard all the same issues or re-issues of Mingus-Ah-Um about which you are fretting, much less on the same system, so there is no common ground.  I have an original copy in mint condition AND a mint copy of the 1995 re-issue by Classic Records.  Both are superb in SQ, and we can all agree the music is exceptional.  Mingus said
Tijuana Moods was his best work, but I prefer Mingus-Ah-Um.   Because of what I have, I would not be tempted to spend $125 on yet another re-issue, but any jazz aficionado should have at least one copy or another of this great recording in his or her collection.