Charlie Mingus

Live In Paris

 Charlie Mingus

Label: Charly

 SNAP062CD

 CD

Price:  £ 8.80  (£7.65 outside EU)

 

Jazz Genius Live in Paris In 1964

The historical importance of Charles Mingus' music grows more apparent with every year which passes.

This collection features the great musician/arranger/composer fronting a quintet which includes Eric Dolphy.

Recorded live in Paris in April of 1964, just months before Dolphy'suntimely death, the line-up is completed by Clifford Jordan, Jaki Bryard and Dannie Richmond.

The set features four extended works. Two are substantial re-workings of earlier Mingus compositions, his famous 'Fables Of Faubus' and the lesser-known' Peggy's Blue Skylight' whilst the other two were new works.

Whilst 'Orange Was The Colour Of Her Dress' is basicallya slow blues, 'Meditations For Integration' is a complex multi-section work, brilliantly orchestrated to exploit the resources of the quintet.Particularly perceptive accompanying sleeve notes from Brian Priestley, author of Mingus: A Critical Biography.

Tracklisting

1. Peggy's Blue Skylight
2. Orange Was The Colour Of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk
3. Meditations For Intergration
4. Fables Of Faubus

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