CHARLES MINGUS - The Complete 1960 Nat Hentoff Sessions
Essential Jazz Classics EJC 55694
CHARLES MINGUS, bass & leader, with:
Collective Personnel:
Eric Dolphy (alto sax, bass clarinet, flute), Jimmy Knepper, Britt Woodman (trombone), Booker Ervin (tenor sax),Charles McPherson (alto sax), Roy Eldridge, Ted Curson, Lonnie Hillyer (trumpet), Paul Bley, Tommy Flanagan, Nico Bunick (piano), Dannie Richmond, Jo Jones (drums).
New York, October November 1960.
How do you review a three CD box that has some of the greatest jazz ever produced? The answer is that there is not much to say that hasn’t been said before but there are things that you need to know.
Here are ten of them.
The original album ‘Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus’ takes up most of disc one. Much of disc two was originally released as the ‘Mingus’. Disc three consists of the ‘Newport Rebels’ album.
Reviewed by Jack Kenny
Essential Jazz Classics EJC 55694
CHARLES MINGUS, bass & leader, with:
Collective Personnel:
Eric Dolphy (alto sax, bass clarinet, flute), Jimmy Knepper, Britt Woodman (trombone), Booker Ervin (tenor sax),Charles McPherson (alto sax), Roy Eldridge, Ted Curson, Lonnie Hillyer (trumpet), Paul Bley, Tommy Flanagan, Nico Bunick (piano), Dannie Richmond, Jo Jones (drums).
New York, October November 1960.
How do you review a three CD box that has some of the greatest jazz ever produced? The answer is that there is not much to say that hasn’t been said before but there are things that you need to know.
Here are ten of them.
- CDs 1 and 2 contain some of the greatest jazz ever recorded.
- Music that is sensual, committed, gritty, edgy and almost chaotic.
- Dolphy’s playing is phenomenal, raw and compelling.
- The interplay between Mingus and Dolphy is astounding.
- The interplay between Mingus and Dannie Richmond is telepathic.
- This was a core part of Mingus’ greatest period.
- Passionate, political and percussive.
- If you do not have these tracks buy the box.
- If you have some of the tracks buy the box.
- The CDs are well recorded and well re-mastered.
The original album ‘Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus’ takes up most of disc one. Much of disc two was originally released as the ‘Mingus’. Disc three consists of the ‘Newport Rebels’ album.
Reviewed by Jack Kenny
