Charles Mingus - The Complete Birdland Broadcasts 1961-1962 (2015) {Air Cuts Remastered, Digital Download, Concert In Superb Fidelity}

Charles Mingus - The Complete Birdland Broadcasts 1961-1962 (2015) {Air Cuts Remastered, Digital Download, Concert In Superb Fidelity}

This amazing set compiles all existing Birdland broadcasts by the Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop of 1961-62. These long unavailable broadcasts feature such important musicians as Booker Ervin, Yusef Lateef, Jimmy Knepper, Pepper Adams, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Charles McPherson, Jaki Byard, Toshiko Akiyoshi andDannie Richmond. Among the many highlights is the drumless broadcast of May 12, 1962, which presents two bassists on Mingus’ only existing live version of “Ysabel’s Table Dance”, from Tijuana Moods. Mingus is the piano soloist on two broadcasts. This music has only been previously available on separate long out of print releases with inferior sound quality.

Also featured are several numbers on which Mingus switches from his customary bass to piano, an instrument on which he was more than competent.

The complete Birdland Broadcasts spanning October 1961-October 1962
Includes the entire WADO broadcast
Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality

PERSONNEL:

Charles Mingus & The Jazz Workshop All Stars

CHARLES MINGUS, bass, piano & leader, with:

COLLECTIVE PERSONNEL:
Jimmy Knepper (tb), Yusef Lateef (fl), Rahsaan Roland Kirk (ts),
Booker Ervin (ts), Charles McPherson (as), Pepper Adams (bs),
Richard Williams, Edward Armour (tp), Don Butterfield (tba),
Jaki Byard, Toshiko Akiyoshi (p), Henry Grimes, Doug Watkins, Herman Wright (b), Dannie Richmond (d).

All tunes recorded live at Birdland, New York, on:
October 21, 1961. CD 1 [4-7]: March 24, 1962.
March 31, 1962. CD 2 [1-5]: May 5, 1962.
May 12, 1962. CD 3 [1-4]: October 19, 1962.
October 26, 1962.

TRACKS

Disc One
1. Blue Cee
2. Ecclusiastics
3. Hog Callin' Blues
4. Introduction to Symphony Sid
5. Take the 'A' Train
6. Fables of Faubus
7. Eat That Chicken
8. Monk, Funk or Vice Versa
9. Oh Lord, Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me, Drop It on Themselves, Coz They Made It
10. Eat That Chicken

Disc Two
1. Eat That Chicken
2. Reets and I
3. Monk, Funk or Vice Versa
4. Devil Woman
5. Eat That Chicken
6. Introduction to Symphony Sid
7. Peggy's Blue Skylight
8. Tijuana Table Dance (a.k.a. Ysabel's Table Dance)
9. Eat That Chicken

Disc Three
1. I Can't Get Started
2. Monk, Funk or Vice Versa
3. Please Don't Come Back from the Moon
4. Eat That Chicken
5. Eat That Chicken
6. Monk, Funk or Vice Versa
7. O.P.
8. The Search