Friday, 16 January 2015

Charles Mingus - The Complete Town Hall Concert (1962) {Blue Note}

Charles Mingus - The Complete Town Hall Concert (1962) {Blue Note}
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© 1994 Blue Note / Capitol | CDP 7243 8 28353 2 5
Jazz / Post Bop / Avant-Garde Jazz


Charles Mingus's Town Hall Concert has long been considered a famous fiasco, and the original United Artists LP (which contained just 36 minutes of music and did not bother identifying the personnel) made matters worse. But this 1994 Blue Note CD does its best to clean up the mess. It contains over half an hour of previously unreleased music and programs the selections largely in the same order as the concert.
There are still confusing moments, inconclusive performances and songs cut off prematurely; Mingus was not in a good temper that day. A highlight among the "new" material is an Eric Dolphy alto solo on the second version of "Epitaph." Blue Note is to be congratulated for doing what they could with what they had, but there are still at least a couple dozen Mingus recordings that would be recommended before this one.

tracklist:
01 - Freedom - Part One
02 - Freedom - Part Two (Clark In The Dark)
03 - Osmotin'
04 - Epitaph - Part One
05 - Peggy's Blue Skylight
06 - Epitaph - Part Two
07 - My Search
08 - Portrait
09 - Duke's Choice (Don't Come Back)
10 - Please Don't Come Back From The Moon
11 - In A Mellotone (Finale)
12 - Epitaph - Part One (Alternate Take)

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