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NetLab -> Forums -> Music -> Jazz -> Topic: Charles Mingus - The Complete 1959 Columbia Recordings (3CD) Charles Mingus - The Complete 1959 Columbia Recordings (3CD), [BOX SET] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] thanks to SurowyTato! |
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Posted: 09-05-2007, 19:37
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thanks to SurowyTato for this excellent collection!   CD1:
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Review By any measure, 1959 was a remarkable year for jazz recordings. The Miles Davis sextet made modality a permanent part of the jazz language with the transcendent KIND OF BLUE. Davis' tenor saxophonist, John Coltrane, took one of his many groundbreaking GIANT STEPS. Ornette Coleman's free jazz polarized musicians, critics, and fans alike, many of whom wondered whether his Atlantic debut album was, indeed, THE SHAPE OF JAZZ TO COME. Thelonious Monk, with a talent, played a concert for the ages that was captured for posterity at New York's Town Hall. Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motian recorded for the first time, and thus began widening the appeal of their quietly revolutionary approach to the piano-bass-drums trio. "Take Five," one of the Biggest-selling jazz tunes of all times, was recorded by the Dave Brubeck quartet. The Blue Note label turned out more superb hard bop by standard bearers Art Blakey, Horace Silver, and Jackie McLean. Wes Montgomery for the first time played so much guitar for Riverside Records. Soulmates Billie Holiday and Lester Young, both clearly in weakened condition, made their final albums before their respective passings. And Charles Mingus cut two of the greatest LPs of his-or anyone's-life. Signed to Columbia in 1959, the brilliant, volcanic bassist-composer-band leader (and sometime pianist) recorded MINGUS AH UM in may; six month later, he unleashed MINGUS DYNASTY. Utilizing two septets, a none (including two cellos), and a tentet that on one number was joined by singer Honey Gordon, Mingus (1922-1979) cooked from a bubbling cauldron of heady ingredients: the call of the blues, blistering post-bop, gospel shouts, evocations of early jazz, probing atonality, impressions of the civil rights struggle, and, of course, the multi-hued palette of his idol, Duke Ellington. The supporting cast includes some of the most authoritative interpreters of Mingus' work, including trombonists Jimmy Knepper and Willie Dennis, saxophonists Booker Ervin, Shafi Hadi, and John Handy, pianists Horace Parlan and Roland Hanna, and especially drummer Dannie Richmond. There are almost three hours of prime Mingus here, including an entire disc of alternate takes-two of which ("Song With Orange" and "Diane") are made available for the first time. Remixed and Remastered from the original three-track tapes produced by Teo Macero, this set was prepared for reissue by awars-winning producer Michael Cuscuna. In addition to reprinting the liner notes that accompanied the original albums (including an essay by the artist that enlivened the back cover of DYNASTY), there are extensive new notes by Brian Priestley, author of MINGUS: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY, as well as photographs taken at the recording sessions. THE COMPLETE 1959 COLUMBIA RECORDINGS OF CHARLES MINGUS is a vivid portrait of an artist reaching a new plateau of greatness in a year when timeless improvisation abounded. |
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