It was Mingus’s 1975 Atlantic recording, Changes One, that etched the clarity of the legend’s vision and tone into Hébert’s mind.
One element of Mingus’s vision that tends to get overlooked was his ability to create singular ensembles of strong, individual performers to play his music, ensembles that have gone down in history as some of the greatest of all time.īassist John Hébert has long been influenced by Mingus’s music. Tributes to his genius tend to come up short because there isn’t a way to improve what he has already wrought. Anthony Ramos Leslie Grace Marc Anthony - Home All Summer (feat.Composer and bassist Charles Mingus’s legendary status is undeniable. Doreen Montalvo Anthony Ramos Stephanie Beatriz Daphne Rubin-Vega Dascha Polanco Melissa Barrera Leslie Grace Jimmy Smits Lin-Manuel Miranda - Finale (05:29)ġ 17. Melissa Barrera Anthony Ramos - Champagne (02:53)ġ 16. Leslie Grace Corey Hawkins - When The Sun Goes Down (02:52)ġ 15. Daphne Rubin-Vega Stephanie Beatriz Dascha Polanco Melissa Barrera Anthony Ramos Lin-Manuel Miranda Leslie Grace Gregory Diaz IV Corey Hawkins - Carnaval Del Barrio (07:00)ġ 14. Anthony Ramos Leslie Grace Jimmy Smits Noah Catala Melissa Barrera Stephanie Beatriz Gregory Diaz IV Dascha Polanco Corey Hawkins Daphne Rubin-Vega - Alabanza (03:18)ġ 13. Olga Merediz - Paciencia Y Fe (04:39)ġ 12. Anthony Ramos Corey Hawkins Melissa Barrera Leslie Grace Olga Merediz Noah Catala Dascha Polanco Gregory Diaz IV Daphne Rubin-Vega Stephanie Beatriz - Blackout (03:20)ġ 11. Anthony Ramos Melissa Barrera Corey Hawkins - The Club (04:48)ġ 10. Leslie Grace Corey Hawkins - When You're Home (05:23)ġ 09. Lin-Manuel Miranda - Piragua (01:42)ġ 08. Anthony Ramos Corey Hawkins Gregory Diaz IV Noah Catala Daphne Rubin-Vega Stephanie Beatriz Dascha Polanco Melissa Barrera - 96,000 (05:45)ġ 07. Melissa Barrera Anthony Ramos Gregory Diaz IV - It Won't Be Long Now (03:38)ġ 06. Daphne Rubin-Vega Stephanie Beatriz Dascha Polanco Leslie Grace Melissa Barrera - No Me Diga (02:24)ġ 05. Rubén Blades and Doreen Montalvo) (04:06)ġ 04. Leslie Grace Doreen Montalvo Rubén Blades - Breathe (feat. Leslie Grace Corey Hawkins - Benny's Dispatch (02:20)ġ 03. Anthony Ramos Lin-Manuel Miranda Olga Merediz Jimmy Smits Daphne Rubin-Vega Stephanie Beatriz Dascha Polanco Corey Hawkins Gregory Diaz IV Melissa Barrera - In The Heights (07:41)ġ 02. The large cast, also including Mandy Gonzalez, Karen Olivo, and Olga Merediz in principal roles, does well by the score on this double-CD cast album, which runs 89 minutes. (At one point, Usnavi predicts that in five years the whole city will consist of nothing but rich people and hipsters, a forecast people have been making for a century or so.) But while they're still on the hot streets, they sing and dance and interact with each other, and Miranda has captured their stories well. There is the sense of that neighborhood's falling apart: several of the characters want to leave, others are being forced out.
Like Rent, In the Heights follows the lives of a group of characters whose aspirations and experiences have something of a soap opera quality, though the intention is to provide a panoramic view of a bustling community. There's no doubt he's familiar with Stephen Sondheim as well as Jonathan Larson, whose Rent is a major influence, even if it's about an entirely different neighborhood of Manhattan. In the introductory song "In the Heights," as he introduces the many other characters in this ensemble piece, rapping over salsa music, he uses words such as "exacerbated" and at one point, speaking of the high temperature, notes, "It's gotten too darn hot like my man Cole Porter said." Usnavi is, in other words, a bit too well educated to be what he claims, and the mixture of closely observed street life with erudition is typical of the show's writing, just as Miranda's music, while infused with Latin and hip-hop elements, is also informed by contemporary show music writing. Usnavi, the owner of a bodega (a small grocery) who dreams of returning to the Dominican Republic, is not only knowledgeable about local transportation. When, at one point, a character reminisces about the subway trains, the IRT 1 and 9, that serviced the area, his character, Usnavi, quickly points out that the 9 has been discontinued. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who stars in the show and is also given a credit for conceiving it as well as writing the songs, clearly knows the neighborhood intimately. The heights referred to in the title of the Broadway musical In the Heights is Washington Heights, a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan adjacent to the George Washington Bridge largely occupied by working-class Hispanics, many of them from the Dominican Republic and other islands in the Caribbean.
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