The Great Concert, Paris 1964
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| Label (s) | America Records , Musidisc , Revenge | |||
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3-LP set, CD box with 2 CDs |
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The Great Concert, Paris 1964 is a jazz album by Charles Mingus that was recorded in 1964, first released in 1970 as a triple LP under the title The Great Concert Of Charles Mingus and was released in 1991 as a double CD. Since 1996 it has been published in a slightly different composition under the title Revenge! The Legendary Paris Concerts featuring Eric Dolphy .
The history
After the sessions for his work The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963), Mingus projected with a core group of Johnny Coles , Dannie Richmond , Jaki Byard and the multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy, who had been working with him for a long time, at concerts in the USA and in April 1964 planned European tour to perform. The quintet wanted to introduce Mingus to each other during a two-month engagement in New York's Blue Spot . However, Dolphy was often not available due to other engagements and so Mingus also played there with other saxophonists such as Coleman Hawkins , Ben Webster , Booker Ervin and Clifford Jordan . Mingus was so taken with Jordan that he kept the band in him when Dolphy played again and expanded the group into a sextet.
A concert with this line-up took place at Cornell University on March 18, 1964 ( Cornell 1964 ). Immediately preceded the tour on April 4, another appearance in the New York Town Hall ( Mingus at Town Hall with Eric Dolphy ); this was a benefit concert for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Title of the album
The double CD The Great Concert, Paris 1964 (Musidisc) contains the following titles:
- Introduction and Presentation (1:33)
- Good Bye Pork Pie Hat (27:11)
- Meditation for (sic!) Integration (23:04)
- Sophisticated Lady (6:12)
- Orange Was the Color of Her Dress (16:00)
- Parkeriana (23:35)
- Fable (sic!) Of Faubus (27:47)
(1) - (4) are on CD 1, (5) - (7) on CD 2. (4) is by Duke Ellington , the other pieces are compositions by Mingus. According to the documentation there, the DoCD, which was released in 1991, only contains pieces from the 2nd concert in Paris. In fact, (2) is the only (edited) recording from the concert on April 17th (full sextet), while all other pieces were recorded at the second concert on April 18th and 19th and played with a quintet (without Coles).
Several typographical errors are striking: (3) is about “ Meditations on Integration ” and (7) is about “ Fables of Faubus ”. Piece (2) is also incorrectly named; it is “So Long Eric” (which is partly based on the riff-like ostinati and harmonies of “Good Bye Pork Pie Hat”).
On the double CD Revenge, first released in 1996 by Sue Graham Mingus ! The Legendary Paris Concert , the live recordings of the concerts are arranged as follows:
- Peggy's Blue Skylight (12:53)
- Orange Was the Color of her Dress, Then Blue Silk (11:38)
- Meditations on Integration (22:39)
- Fables of Faubus (24:53)
- So Long Eric (28:50)
- Parkeriana (24:13)
According to Scott Yanow , this publication contains the entire concert of April 17, 1964, very differently from what it says.
In 2003 MusiDisc released a new version of the concert under the title The Great Concert of Charles Mingus , at which ATFW was also published for the first time . The now correctly named So Long Eric is included in this edition for the first time in the quintet version of the second concert. The new version of the concert documentation was added to the catalog by Verve Records in 2004 ; it should be authorized.
The concert on April 17th, 1964
A performance in the Salle Wagram in Paris was planned for April 17th . Johnny Coles had recently had gastric surgery and had not recovered from it. He only played in the first track So Long Eric (or Good Bye Pork Pie Hat ). This piece is considered to be the most interesting and cohesive piece on the album. It can be seen as a continuation of the previous Town Hall concert on April 4, 1964. During the concert - the band was playing "Orange Was Her Dress ..." - Coles suffered a collapse on stage, had to go to the hospital, where a stomach ulcer was operated on that same night, and he would not participate in the tour .
The rest of the concert was played by the remaining quintet without Coles. In the further course were Parkeriana , meditation , Fables of Faubus and Peggy's Blue Skylight listed.
The concert on April 18, 1964
The next day followed another gig in Paris, where the group appeared as a quintet. The second concert took place on April 18th (more precisely very early on April 19th, namely from 0.10 to 2.45), this time in the "Theater des Champs Elysées ". It was broadcast live by ORTF . A. Francis, the producer of the program “Jazz sur scéne” (and this concert), mentions in his liner notes for The Great Concert that at the second concert there was an empty chair in the middle of the stage, empty except for the trumpet by J Coles. The first piece played during this concert, "ATFW", which Byard focused on, was initially not documented because one of the microphones failed at the beginning. The group So Long played Eric as the second piece .
Mingus announced his title Meditations on Integration with reference to allegedly planned internment camps for African Americans in the southern states . The piece begins with a lot of tension, but as the playing time progresses the piece loses more and more of it. Here at the latest the loss of Johnny Coles becomes noticeable; the same applies to the following Fables of Faubes. Apparently the musicians had not yet come to terms with the loss of their trumpeter. With Sophisticated Lady , Mingus shows his admiration for his great role model Duke Ellington , with whom he had recently recorded the trio record Money Jungle .
In 2017, further extracts from the concert were discovered in the archive of the French radio, including a. with a duo of the bassist with Eric Dolphy via I Can't Get Started .
Awards
The album received the 1971 Grand Prix of the Paris-based Académie de Jazz .
The European tour in 1964
On this tour, the band played in numerous variations pieces in extended form that Mingus had already released on previous records: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Mingus' tribute to the late Lester Young ), ATFW USA (which was dedicated to Art Tatum and Fats Waller ) , Parkeriana , a medley of Charlie Parker compositions, Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress , So Long Eric , the meditations on integration accusing racial discrimination and also as a political statement Fables Of Faubus (in the "original form" on Mingus Ah Um 1959 ) in extensive variants.
This tour was an important experience for many European jazz fans. They were confronted with music that had never been heard before in this heat, sharpness and freedom. The band's first documented concert took place on April 10th in Amsterdam . This was followed by appearances in Oslo (April 12), Stockholm (April 13) and Copenhagen (April 14); on April 16th the band played in Bremen . The group played in Paris on April 17th and 18th. The other guest performances in Liège (April 19), Marseille ( April 20), Lyon (April 21), Zurich (April 22), Biel (April 23), Bologna (April 24) and Milan (April 25) used the band to get used to each other again after losing their trumpeter. On April 26th the musical balance of the band was right again: This is shown by the recordings of the performance in Wuppertal ( Mingus in Europe, Vol. 1 & 2 ). This was followed by appearances in Frankfurt am Main (April 27th) and in Stuttgart (April 28th): The highlight of the concert in the Stuttgart Liederhalle was a half-hour version of the Fables Of Faubus . Another concert by the band in Hamburg (April 29th) ended the tour.
Musically, the tour was a complete success, a high point before Mingus' star temporarily declined in the late 1960s. However, the tour was overshadowed by various difficulties: In Biel, Mingus destroyed the recording device of a fan who recorded the concert without being asked; he also had a film confiscated. In Hamburg, where Dolphy's hotel room had a swastika painted on it, he was furious and kicked in hotel room doors and destroyed microphones on stage and brandished a knife. When the police came, he stopped the concert. In Bremen he cursed the audience as Nazis. He hit an organizer Ralf Schulte-Bahrenberg with a bouquet of flowers on the head and sent editors angry letters. Since the concert in Oslo, Eric Dolphy had intended to leave the band after the tour and not return to North America with Mingus (he died on June 29, 1964 of unrecognized diabetes in Berlin). And Johnny Coles dropped out due to his breakdown, so instead of the sextet a quintet had to deny the rest of the tour. The tour has gone down in jazz history with its wealth of incidents and headlines .
Chronological discography of the tour
- Cornell University, Ithaca , New York - Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy: Cornell 1964 ( Blue Note 0946 3 92210 2 8) 2 CDs
- New York - Mingus at Town Hall With Eric Dolphy (Jazz Workshop JWS 005 / at OJC as CD)
- Amsterdam - Live in Amsterdam Vol. 1 (AROC 1204) / Vol. 2 (AROC 1205, Bootleg )
- Oslo - Live in Oslo 1964 (Jazz Up JU 307, Bootleg)
- Stockholm - Live in Stockholm (Royal Jazz RJD 517 2, Bootleg)
- Copenhagen - Live in Copenhagen 1964 (Landscape, Bootleg; also: "Astral Weeks")
- Paris - The Great Concert, Paris 1964 (Musidisc 500072) 2 CDs, the original triple LP is called: The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (released on America AM 003/004/005)
- Paris - Revenge! The Legendary Paris Concerts (Revenge! Records 32002, 1996; currently the official documentation of the concerts in Paris)
- Paris - Meditation on Integration (Bandstand BDCD 1524, Bootleg)
- Paris - Meditation (France´s Concert FCD 102, Bootleg)
- Paris - Live in Paris, 1964 - Volume 2 (France´s Concert, FCD 110, Bootleg)
- Wuppertal - Mingus in Europe, Vol. 1 (Enja 3049) / Vol. 2 (Enja 3077)
- Stuttgart - Mingus in Stuttgart - The April 28 1964 Concert (Unique Jazz 009, Bootleg)
literature
- Horst Weber & Gerd Filtgen: Charles Mingus - His life, his music, his records , Schaftlach, Oreos, (Collection Jazz), 1988
- Richard Cook & Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide Of Jazz On CD ; Sixth Edition, London, Penguin, 2002
Web links
- The European Tour of April 1964
- Scott Yanow: The Great Concert, Paris 1964 with Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Gary Giddins, Cornell 1964 ... LinerNotes on Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy: Cornell 1964. Blue Note 2007
- ↑ http://mingus.onttonen.info/details/980691.html
- ↑ H. Weber, G. Filtgen, Ch. Mingus, p. 146.
- ↑ H. Weber / G. Filtgen, Ch.Mingus, p. 147.
- ↑ Charles Mingus au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées en 1964 (rappel inédit) at France Musique (2017)
- ↑ H. Weber / G. Filtgen. Ch.Mingus, p. 147
- ↑ H. Weber / G. Filtgen, Ch.Mingus, p. 147
- ^ Markus A. Wölfle, Linernotes on Charles Mingus, 80th Birthday Celebration
- ↑ Cf. Gene Santoro Myself When I am Real - The Life and Music of Charles Mingus Oxford, New York 2000, p. 227
- ^ MA Wölfle, Linernotes on Charles Mingus, 80th Birthday Celebration