MINGUS, CHARLIE – TIJUANA MOODS Gangsta Rap migrated to Chicago from the

migrated to Chicago from the Mississippi region

Lead singer Davey Havok’s desperate shrills backed up by huge gang vocals

the Rite Spot

Chloe De St

with wizard of weird Lo’Spider at Swampland in Toulouse

MINGUS, CHARLIE – TIJUANA MOODS Gangsta Rap migrated to Chicago from theAll the music in this album was written during a very blue period in my life, the bassist Charles Mingus observed in the liner notes to Tijuana Moods. Recorded a little over 60 years ago, on July 18 and August 6, 1957, its an album that remains unique not only in the Mingus discography but also in jazz as a whole. Less an expression of Mexican musical influence than a personal evocation of a place, the album belongs to a vibrant category of border