Today's Listen:
Charles Mingus -- THE GREAT CONCERT OF CHARLES MINGUS
2CD set. Very long tunes. 7.55 - 14.29 - 21.47 - 22.45 - 27.04 - 27.46. These are the lengths of some / most of the tunes. He often plays too long. Eric Dolphy really earned his money on this set.
Tunes include: Fables of Faubus( I wonder who remembers Faubus), Sophisticated Lady, and Parkeriana(dedicated to Bird).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kilr601kki0
If he were an actor, you would say he had tremendous range. Fats Waller to Bird!!
Interesting music, but I could not help but think of what Armstrong said: "If you can't dance to it, it ain't Jazz". And anything Pops said, was like getting it from the Mount Sinai of Jazz.
To be fair, some of these artist do seem to resist having their music called Jazz. Maybe we should listen to them.
Mingus makes some very Juvenile and silly comments on the opening of 'Meditations On Integration.' He sure liked to talk the Race Card, esp overseas. This was recorded in France. And curiously, coming from a man who was too 'scared' to tour the South with Armstrong. A Jazz musician afraid to tour the birthplace of Jazz?? I still think he was a hell of a musician. Just not the man I thought he was.
Cheers
Charles Mingus -- THE GREAT CONCERT OF CHARLES MINGUS
2CD set. Very long tunes. 7.55 - 14.29 - 21.47 - 22.45 - 27.04 - 27.46. These are the lengths of some / most of the tunes. He often plays too long. Eric Dolphy really earned his money on this set.
Tunes include: Fables of Faubus( I wonder who remembers Faubus), Sophisticated Lady, and Parkeriana(dedicated to Bird).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kilr601kki0
If he were an actor, you would say he had tremendous range. Fats Waller to Bird!!
Interesting music, but I could not help but think of what Armstrong said: "If you can't dance to it, it ain't Jazz". And anything Pops said, was like getting it from the Mount Sinai of Jazz.
To be fair, some of these artist do seem to resist having their music called Jazz. Maybe we should listen to them.
Mingus makes some very Juvenile and silly comments on the opening of 'Meditations On Integration.' He sure liked to talk the Race Card, esp overseas. This was recorded in France. And curiously, coming from a man who was too 'scared' to tour the South with Armstrong. A Jazz musician afraid to tour the birthplace of Jazz?? I still think he was a hell of a musician. Just not the man I thought he was.
Cheers