Sunday, December 2, 2007

Sunday tunes

Here's the bomb I promised (other promises are delayed-bills, bills, bills): Charles Mingus live in Norway, 1964, in seven parts. This is from the same tour that resulted in one of my favorite Mingus albums of all time, The Great Concert (Paris, 1964). With the exception of half of one song, apparently edited together on the record from more than one performance, Johnny Coles's trumpet was missing on that album, apparently due to a perforated ulcer (in Coles, not the trumpet). Below, Coles is present for the whole proceedings. The other performers are: Charles Mingus on bass, Jackie Byard on piano, Eric Dolphy on alto sax, Clifford Jordan on tenor sax, and the great Dannie Richmond on drums.













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