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Charles Mingus: In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts

Read "In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
April 8, 2025

So many live jazz dates have been taped over the years. Then the tapes have been shelved. With that in mind, there may be no end to the ongoing supply of uncovered jazz gems begging to be discovered. But Zev Feldman, the Jazz Detective, is doing his best to dig out as many as possible. His discoveries have included formerly unreleased sets by pianists Bill Evans and Art Tatum, saxophonist Sonny Rollins, bandleader Sun Ra, guitarist Wes Montgomery and many ...

Radio & Podcasts

Mingus Unearthed!

by Hobart Taylor
March 26, 2025

Mingus Unearthed! Just in time for Record Store Day Resonance Records releases never before heard live Mingus recordings from performances in Argentina. Also new music from David Murray with Ekep Nkwelle, Eva Novoa and The Los Angeles Improvisations Ensemble.Playlist David Murray Quartet Ekep Nkwelle “Birdly Serenade" from (Self Produced) 0:00 Gillian Margot Geoffrey Keezer “The Peacocks}} “ from (Self Produced) 5:23 Sasha Berliner" The Worst Person in the World" from Fantome (Outside In) 12:40 Host Speaks 20:21 Opus ...

Radio & Podcasts

Charles Mingus, Victor Feldman, and Chris McGregor

by Jerome Wilson
February 19, 2025

I was not able to do a live show last week so here is an old show from December 2020 that featured Charles Mingus, Brian Lynch, Gary Burton, Victor Feldman, and Chris McGregor. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Karrin Allyson “Good Morning Heartache" from Azure Te (Concord) 1:06 Tania Grubbs Quintet “Bird on a Wire" from Live at ...

Live Review

Clod Ensemble + Nu Civilisation Orchestra At Barbican Theatre

by Chris May
September 22, 2024

Clod Ensemble + Nu Civilisation Orchestra Barbican Theatre The Black Saint And The Sinner LadyLondon September 19, 2024 We will never know exactly what Charles Mingus meant by the title of his suite The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (Impulse!, 1963). Indeed, Mingus himself may not have known, though righteous anger was evidentially part of the music, as it was with so much of his work. Mingus declined to articulate any ...

Album Review

Charles Mingus: Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus To Pre Bird Revisited

Read "Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus To Pre Bird Revisited" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
March 27, 2024

In his liner notes for Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus To Pre Bird Revisited, Bill Shoemaker sets out the context in which the two featured albums should be considered. He observes that so enormous was Charles Mingus' artistic vision that no two (or perhaps three) albums can encompass its totality. How true that is, even of the pairing of two Mingus albums that are as different as could be: Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Candid, 1960) and Pre Bird (Mercury, ...

Album Review

Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Max Roach: Hot House: The Complete Jazz at Massey Hall Recordings

Read "Hot House: The Complete Jazz at Massey Hall Recordings" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
December 28, 2023

This is the stuff of legend, one for the ages. It all started here; the greatest jazz concert of all time. How many times has the Massey Hall Concert (Toronto, 1953) been described that way? For the average All About Jazz reader, Massey Hall happened before he or she was born. Besides, there were other famous jazz concerts such as The Carnival of Swing (Randall's Island, NY, 1938), Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert (that remained unreleased until 1958), Gene ...

Album Review

Charles Mingus: At Antibes 1960 Revisited

Read "At Antibes 1960 Revisited" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 11, 2023

At Antibes could easily be an all-time favorite Charles Mingus recording if he had not produced such extraordinary sessions as Mingus Ah Um (Columbia, 1959), Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Candid, 1961), The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (Impulse!, 1963) and Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Impulse!, 1964). Listeners can make their own picks, but this live recording from 1960 at the Antibes Jazz Festival in Juan-les-Pins, France, has a power unique unto itself. One can almost feel the ...