Three or Four Shades of Blues is a studio album by American jazz bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus. It was recorded in sessions held on March 9 and 11, 1977 at New York City's Atlantic Studios and March 29 at the Record Plant in Los Angeles.[1] The album features two new versions of Mingus' "standards" and three new compositions performed by large ensembles featuring saxophonists Ricky Ford, George Coleman, and Sonny Fortune, pianist Jimmy Rowles, guitarists Larry … mehrCoryell, Philip Catherine and John Scofield, bassists Ron Carter and George Mraz, trumpeter Jack Walrath, and drummer Dannie Richmond. weniger
1. Better Get Hit in Your Soul 4:35
2. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 7:00
3. Noddin Ya Head Blues 10:29
4. Three or Four Shades of Blues 12:03
5. Nobody Knows 10:06