For You Lot Charles Mingus - 1960 [1986] Mingus Revisited

Mingus Revisited (originally released equally Pre-Bird inward 1961) is an album past times jazz bassist as well as composer Charles Mingus consisting of music that was composed earlier Mingus get down heard Charlie Parker, thus the Pre-Bird title. The music is scored for diverse sized large jazz ensembles as well as features many soloists prominent at the fourth dimension of recording. The album includes 2 tracks which are contrapuntal arrangements of 2 swing era pieces, whereby "Take the "A" Train" (left channel) is paired with a simultaneous "Exactly Like You" (right channel), as well as too "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" with "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart".

This is an LP reissue of a ready that was originally titled Pre Bird because it features unopen to of the advanced originals that Charles Mingus wrote prior to hearing Charlie Parker. The bassist leads an undisciplined simply colorful 25-piece orchestra on iii titles including an Eric Dolphy characteristic on "Bemonable Lady" piece the other v tracks are past times a ten-piece (including 2 pianos) band; Lorraine Cousins sings "Eclipse" as well as "Weird Nightmare." It's an interesting ready of typically unconventional music past times Mingus.

Mingus Revisited aka Pre-Bird is 1 of the legendary Mingus sessions, where the size of the band was increasing speedily from rehearsals to the actual recording sessions. Producer Leonard Feather wrote most the incident inward his mass Earwitness To An Era (Part Five, chapter Westward):
Of all my experiences equally a producer, none was to a greater extent than traumatic than the attempt, inward 1960, to tape an album for Mercury Records with Charles Mingus.
... After 2 days of crisis during which it seemed the album powerfulness never hold upwards made, I walked into the studio on the engagement of the session as well as could hardly believe my eyes. We had a twenty-two-piece orchestra, with Gunther Schuller conducting! Eric Dolphy, Clark Terry, Slide Hampton, Jimmy Knepper, Joe Farrell, Booker Ervin, Yusef Lateef as well as Paul Bley were alongside the participants.

Charles Mingus / Mingus Revisited: This Great album was originally titled "Pre-Bird" as well as and so changed to "Mingus Revisited". By whatever advert this album comes by, it is an first-class collection of songs. This 1 has Mingus' compositions addition 2 good known Duke Ellington numbers that are wonderfully interpreted past times Mingus. This is a real entertaining CD. Five Stars

Track listing:

1. "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) / "Exactly Like You" (Jimmy McHugh/Dorothy Fields) – 3:40
2. "Prayer For Passive Resistance" – 3:57
3. "Eclipse" – 4:01
4. "Mingus Fingus No. 2" – 3:39
5. "Weird Nightmare" - 3:42
6. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" (Duke Ellington/Bob Russell) / "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" (Duke Ellington/Irving Mills/Henry Nemo/John Redmond) - 3:41
7. "Bemoanable Lady" - 4:30
8. "Half-Mast Inhibition" - 8:14

All compositions past times Charles Mingus, except where indicated

Personnel:

Max Roach - drums
Gunther Schuller - conductor
Marcus Belgrave - trumpet
Ted Curson - trumpet
Clark Terry - trumpet
Hobart Dotson - trumpet
Richard Williams - trumpet
Robert Di Domenica - flute
Eric Dolphy - alto saxophone, flute
Yusuf Lateef - saxophone, flute
John LaPorta - saxophone
Danny Bank - saxophone
Bill Barron - saxophone
Joe Farrell - saxophone
Eddie Bert - trombone
Slide Hampton - trombone
Jimmy Knepper - trombone
Charles "Majeed" Greenlee - trombone
Paul Bley - piano
Roland Hanna - piano
Charles Mingus – bass
George Scott - drums
Dannie Richmond - drums
Sticks Evans - drums
Lorraine Cusson - vocals