Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
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| Label (s) | Candid Records | |||
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LP, CD |
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4th |
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46:23 |
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Nola Penthouse Sound Studios New York City |
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Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus is a jazz album by Charles Mingus . Recorded in 1960, the album was released on the short-lived Candid label founded by jazz critic and producer Nat Hentoff . The record is the first of a total of four LPs documenting two recording sessions by the Charles Mingus bands at the time (" Mingus ", "Reincarnation Of A Love Bird" and "Mysterious Blues" follow ).
Prehistory of the plate
Charles Mingus had a special relationship with the jazz critic, journalist and later record producer Nat Hentoff : he valued his profound knowledge of jazz and blues and his interest in the European composers of the 20th century. Hentoff was kind of a soul mate for the bass player. By the early 1950s, when Hentoff was based in Boston producing an album from a radio show with Mingus and the Billy Taylor Trio, he had promoted Mingus as his influence grew. He interviewed him on his Boston radio show and wrote early articles about him for the jazz magazine Down Beat .
When Nat Hentoff also became a record producer, he arranged for the re-release of the Jazz Workshop record "Mingus At The Bohemia" from 1955. In the late 1950s, Hentoff wrote the liner notes for five important Mingus albums (one of which Hentoff had produced himself: the live album "Jazz Portraits - Mingus in Wonderland" for United Artists ), three of the liner notes appeared as a separate chapter in his book "These Jazzmen of Our Time". Eventually, Hentoff helped Charles Mingus get out of the Bellevue Hospital, where he had taken himself.
In 1960, Hentoff founded the Candid label as a division of Archie Bleyer's Cadence Records , which had the Everly Brothers and Andy Williams under contract. Hentoff was able to use Cadence's office and infrastructure , but was economically dependent on the main label. In the span of only eight months (until the economic downfall of Cadence ), Hentoff captured the musical microcosm of the New York jazz and blues scene. The repertoire ranged from folk blues veteran Lightnin 'Hopkins to avant-garde jazz pianist Cecil Taylor .
Except for the appearance at the Jazz Festival in Antibes on July 13, 1960 and at the counter-festival in Newport , Mingus spent the year performing at "The Showplace", a small club in New York's Greenwich Village . His group called "Jazz Workshop" consisted in its core since the end of 1959 of the saxophonist Eric Dolphy , the trumpeter Ted Curson and the drummer Dannie Richmond . The saxophonists Booker Ervin , Yusef Lateef , Charles McPherson and Leo Wright , the trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer , the trombonist Jimmy Knepper , the vibraphonist Teddy Charles , the pianists Kenny Drew , Jaki Byard , Kenny Barron and Roland Hanna , the bass player , also played during these performances Wilbur Ware , drummer Elvin Jones and once the tap dancer Baby Laurence .
Back then, Hentoff would have loved to record Charles Mingus and his band live in the club they were playing in; when this could not be realized, the live atmosphere of a night club in the studio was created by invited guests. Mingus announced the numbers and led the session as if it were in a jazz club. The result was the album "Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus" (Candid CS 9005).
The session of October 20, 1960
To fulfill his contract with Hentoff's Candid Records, Charles Mingus took two marathon recording sessions. At the first session in October, the record "Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus" was recorded. It contains the titles
- “Folk Forms, No. 1 ”- 13:08
- “Original Faubus Fables” - 9:19
- “What Love” - 3:23 pm
- “All The Things You Could be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother” - 8:33
in the cast Charles Mingus (b), Eric Dolphy (as / bcl), Ted Curson (tp), Dannie Richmond (dr).
Most of the rest of the material from this session appeared on the following record "Mingus" (Candid 9021)
Effect of the plate
The composition of piece 2 corresponds to Fables of Faubus . In contrast to Mingus Ah Um , where this title was recorded for the first time (at the time purely instrumental), this version contains a sarcastic text that was recited in chant and deals with Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas and his politics of racial discrimination . The album was therefore banned by censors in South Africa .
Rolling Stone magazine voted the album at number 59 on its list of The 100 Best Jazz Albums in 2013 .
literature
- Horst Weber , Gerd Filtgen: Charles Mingus. His life, his music, his records. Oreos, Gauting-Buchendorf, undated, ISBN 3-923657-05-6
- Liner Notes for "Candid Jazz"
- Roy Carr: Liner Notes for “Charles Mingus - In A Soulful Mood” (Candid / Music Club)
- Salim Washington: “All the Things You Could Be by Now”: Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus and the Limits of Avant-Garde Jazz, in: Robert G. O'Meally, Brent Hayes Edwards, Farah Jasmine Griffin: Uptown Conversation, Columbia University Press 2004
Notes and individual references
- ↑ According to the original liner notes, this meeting was on November 19, 1960. The October date is now considered certain. See Brian Priestley : Charles Mingus. London 1985, p. 127.
- ↑ Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Jazz Albums . Retrieved November 16, 2016.