Two seldom mentioned live Mingus recordings worth checking out:
“Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy: Cornell, 1964”. A two disc set recorded live before the same sextet would tour Europe with subsequent recordings. Fantastic performances and a plus is pretty good sound for a live a recording. Dolphy and Byard in particular sound amazing. Another example of a “lost” tape, it wasn’t released until Sue Mingus found it about ten years ago.
No Mingus collection would be complete without a recording of “Epitaph”. Considered by many to be his greatest composition it is a two + hour long work that wasn’t recorded in its entirety until after his death. Parts of it appear on “The Complete Town Hall Concert” (1962); but for a recording of the complete work there is “Epitaph”, a live recording of the entire work from a 1989 concert with orchestra conducted by Gunter Schuller. Amazing musical mind.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S86WzxIbolwhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ngCE9Jk-hMA(I sincerely hope no one is “insulted” by the above info 😇)