My Favorite Quintet
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| Live album by Charles Mingus | ||||
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| Label (s) | Jazz Workshop , Prestige Records , Liberty Records | |||
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LP |
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2 |
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43:50 |
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My Favorite Quintet is a jazz album by Charles Mingus that was recorded on May 13, 1965 at a concert at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and released by Mingus around 1966 on his own label Jazz Workshop .
background
From mid-1964 Mingus worked with a quintet that included Lonnie Hillyer (trumpet), Charles McPherson (alto saxophone), Jaki Byard (piano) and Dannie Richmond on drums. For several months in 1965, the bassist and his group had an engagement in the New York jazz club Village Vanguard , which he abruptly ended on April 13th. In the following months Mingus mainly occupied himself with composing and only appeared sporadically, for example on May 13th in Minneapolis. Shortly thereafter, Jaki Byard left the band in a dispute over Mingus' authoritarian leadership style.
Track list
- Charles Mingus: My Favorite Quintet (Charles Mingus Records JWS 009, Liberty LBS 83346)
1. So Long Eric - 6:24
pm 2. Medley - 3:58 pm
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She's Funny That Way (Neil Moret / Richard A. Whiting )
- Embraceable You ( George Gershwin )
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I Can't Get Started ( Vernon Duke )
- I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You ( Victor Young )
- Old portrait
- Cocktails for Two ( Arthur Johnston / Sam Coslow )
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She's Funny That Way (Neil Moret / Richard A. Whiting )
All other compositions are by Charles Mingus.
reception
Shawn M. Haney rated the album in Allmusic with three (out of five) stars and said that this Charles Mingus quintet achieved a vibrant, percussive and spontaneous liveliness, but sometimes at the expense of orientation.
For the Mingus biographers Horst Weber and Gerd Filtgen, it is hard to see why Mingus called this record My Favorite Quintet , "especially when you think of his great line-up with Eric Dolphy ". While Charles McPherson contributed some nice ballads, trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer was not able to convince in the opinion of the authors. The tempo changes of the rhythm section in “So Long Eric”, however, are unique ; Also impressive are Hillyer's and McPherson's unison lines at the end of “Old Portrait”, where you can hear “how well the band played in”. The final jazz standard "Cocktails for Two" is "totally dismantled and distorted into the grotesque by Mingus, so that the audience and listeners can have fun and laugh along."
Editor's note
The album was re-released as LP several times; under the title Portrait ( Prestige Records P-24092, coupled with Town Hall Concert , 1980) and in the 1980s in France under the misleading title Town Hall Concert - Charles Mingus & His Quintet featuring Eric Dolphy (America 30 AM 6105) and 1969 in Great Britain as a single LP (Liberty LBS 83346).
Individual evidence
- ^ Brian Priestley : Mingus. A Critical Biography. Quartet Books, London, Melbourne, New York City ISBN 0704322757 , pp. 165 f.
- ↑ Review of Shawn M. Haney's album My favorite Quintet at Allmusic (English). Retrieved January 29, 2015.
- ^ Horst Weber, Gerd Filtgen: Charles Mingus. His life, his music, his records. Gauting-Buchendorf: Oreos, undated, ISBN 3-923657-05-6 , p. 151 ff.
- ↑ http://mingus.onttonen.info/details/fantasy/jws009.html
- ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Charles-Mingus-My-Favorite-Quintet/master/309043