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| | Ysabel's Table Dance |
 | | CHARLES MINGUS - "Ysabel's Table Dance" (from the album New Tijuana Moods) Mingus's shot at re-creating his experience south of the border, during a "very blue period" in his life when he was "minus a wife," this is, like much Mingus, alternately riotous and deeply grounded in the blues, and always passionate. |
 | | This is as charging and full-on as any of Mingus's blues numbers from Blues and Roots, but in a completely different idiom - just another aspect of Mingus's musical personality, and why he preferred "Mingus music" as a label over "jazz," which was too confining. |
 | | The song opens with the band in flamenco mode, with everyone driving the energy level higher: Ysabel Morel's frantic castanets, Mingus's bowed bass, the piano, the yells of "hey!" (maybe from Ysabel), the dark, forboding horns, and later Mingus's picked flamenco lines. |
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