Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop
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47:02 |
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Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop is a jazz album by Charles Mingus that was recorded on June 2nd and 3rd, 1964 at The Jazz Showcase jazz club in San Francisco. It was released on Fantasy Records that same year .
background
After his successful European tour, Mingus returned to the United States with the rest of his band, without Johnny Coles and without Eric Dolphy , who died in Berlin in June 1964. Just four weeks later, the Mingus band performed several evenings at the jazz workshop in San Francisco with a different line-up . The recordings for the album were made on the last two evenings. Tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan and drummer Dannie Richmond played with Mingus ; the pianist Jane Getz replaced Jaki Byard and the alto saxophonist John Handy was added in New Fables . The band plays extended versions of the two Mingus compositions Meditations on Integration (here under the title Meditation for a Pair of Wire Cutters ) and Fables of Faubus (here titled New Fables ).
After his return to the east coast, Mingus expanded his band through the addition of Lonnie Hillyer and Charles McPherson to the sextet, to which Jaki Byard also returned.
Track list
- Charles Mingus: Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (Debut LP 86017, Fantasy 86017)
- New Fables (Charles Mingus) - 23:18
- Meditation (For a Pair of Wire Cutters) (Charles Mingus) - 23:44
reception
Scott Yanow awarded the album three stars (out of five) in Allmusic and rated it
- "Although it doesn't come close to the passionate level of the Mingus Dolphy Quintet, this undervalued recording holds up."
- Although not up to the passionate level of the Mingus-Dolphy Quintet, this underrated unit holds its own.
For Mingus biographer Todd S. Jenkins, the recording of the two tracks is “a rather unusual, but dramatically tense couple”. The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide awarded the album three stars (out of five).
Jim Santella praised the good sound quality of the recording in his 1997 review in All About Jazz ; “And the subtleties are shown; you can listen to Mingus pushing his followers by hitting the bass strings against the wood, and that's the crowd that makes you realize this is a live session. ”In New Fables, Mingus change moods, like It suits him, avant-garde, blues , flamenco and straight-ahead jazz. Handy’s contribution was “moving, very imaginative, technically compelling, and a harbinger of what was to come in Monterey in the following year .” Meditations, on the other hand, offered a different program: Mingus played the bass with the bow in cello-style safely and first-class, and the young Jane Getz played relaxed, free and captivating, and for a brief moment Mingus added to a four-hand piano intermezzo. The piece is a sliding ballad, but changes occur constantly. He quotes the liner notes by Rachel Sales, according to which we can expect a lot from Mingus, the bassist-composer: the sound of exuberance, angry compassion, or joy and anger at risking everything and above all the sound of surprise .
For the Mingus producers Horst Weber and Gerd Filtgen, however, the album suffers “from poor recording quality”; Jane Getz can also hardly be heard in New Fables . "John Handy plays the role of the guest who has entered here, because he does not even play a part in the topic, but only follows Clifford Jordan with quite attractive contributions in the form of a" blowing session "." otherwise usual contrasts in the larger ensembles, "which Mingus developed through his head arrangements with various wind players."
The critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton gave the album three stars (out of four) in The Penguin Guide to Jazz and pointed out that Jane Getz does not come close to Jaki Byard. The authors, on the other hand, praised the funky game John Cell Phones, who plays gruffly than McPherson.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Brian Priestley believes that the ability to record for Fantasy Records may have been due to the fact that sales of Debut Records material have increased during this period since Fantasy took over the musician's label's catalog. See Priestley, p. 159. According to Jim Santella, the album was initially released on Debut.
- ↑ a b Brian Priestley: Mingus. A Critical Biography. Quartet Books, London, Melbourne, New York City ISBN 0704322757 , pp. 158 f.
- ^ Review of the album Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop by ScottYanow at Allmusic . Retrieved January 29, 2015.
- ↑ Todd S. Jenkins: I Know what I Know: The Music of Charles Mingus . 2006, page 121
- ^ John Swenson: The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide , 1999, p. 481.
- ↑ Review of Jim Santella's album (1997) in All About Jazz
- ^ Horst Weber, Gerd Filtgen: Charles Mingus. His life, his music, his records. Gauting-Buchendorf: Oreos, undated, ISBN 3-923657-05-6 , p. 151 ff.
- ^ Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette . 2nd Edition. Penguin, London 1994, ISBN 0-14-017949-6 , p. 897.