Charles Mingus - Mingus At Monterey - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The music Charles Mingus and his group recorded during his landmark 1960 sessions for Candid Records produced three of the most revered jazz albums of the era. INCARNATIONS is a new masterpiece thoughtfully assembled from rare and unreleased material from those sessions that stands proudly in the Mingus canon of masterworks. All but one of the tracks here are from the November 11th, 1960 sessions Mingus and producer Nate Hentoff put together. The date was split into two halves one a pure Mingus-led date, featuring a six-piece band that expanded into an octet for two additional tunes, and another, a partial reunion of a collective that had assembled in opposition against George Wein's Newport Jazz Festival that past July. (That collective, calling themselves The Jazz Artist Guild, would the album Newport Rebels, on Candid in 1961.) Of special note here is the one track recorded during the Mingus October 20th 1960 sessions. It is a previously unreleased track titled InchAll The Things You Are (All.)Inch Found on a tape that contained material from both of these fall 1960 dates, the piece has it's roots in an Art Tatum rendition of InchAll the Things You Are,Inch which Mingus had recorded before in various settings. Featuring Booker Ervin, Eric Dolphy, Charles McPherson, Ted Curson, Lonnie Hillyer, Roy Eldridge, Jimmy Knepper, Britt Woodman, Tommy Flanagan, Paul Bley, Dannie Richmond and Jo Jones. With audio restored and remastered by Bernie Grundman, and liner notes by Pitchfork and New York Times contributor Hank Shteamer, this album is a must have for any Mingus fan. Album Tracks 1. Bugs (Take 3) 2. R&R (Take 1) 3. All the Things You Are (All) Previously Unreleased 4. Reincarnation of a Love Bird (2nd Version, Take 1) 5. Body and Soul (Take 6)

This 2-CD set was recorded on October 31, 1970 in a single, sleepless night, the fleeting space of a session that took place almost undetected and in a sort of urgent calm. The first CD includes the America Masters previously released on vinyl only. The second CD includes all the alternate takes and comments and directions by Charles Mingus during the sessiontakes. It's fascinating piece of Jazz history. Album Tracks 1. I Left My Heart in San Francisco 2. Reincarnation of a Lovebird 3. Peggy's Blue Skylight 4. Love Is a Dangerous Necessity 5. Blue Bird 6. Pithecanthropus Erectus 1. Reincarnation of a Lovebird 2. Reincarnation of a Lovebird 3. Reincarnation of a Lovebird 4. Reincarnation of a Lovebird 5. Peggy's Blue Skylight 6. Peggy's Blue Skylight 7. Peggy's Blue Skylight 8. Peggy's Blue Skylight 9. Blue Bird 10. Reprise 11. Love Is a Dangerous Necessity 12. Love Is a Dangerous Necessity 13. Pithecanthropus Erectus 14. Pithecanthropus Erectus 15. Pithecanthropus Erectus 16. Pithecanthropus Erectus 17. Pithecanthropus Erectus 18. Pithecanthropus Erectus

Album Tracks 1. Jump Monk 2. Pithecanthropus Erectus 3. Ecclusiastics 4. Fables of Faubus 5. Duke Ellington's Sound of Love 6. East-Coasting 7. What Love? 8. Jelly Roll