Complete Candid Charles Mingus (Mosaic LPs)
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Bid On Classic Mingus!
When jazz turned commercial, Mingus turned rebel. The fire of the times--in these rare Candid recordings.
Let's turn back the clock to 1960. The times were turbulent, and so was the music. Mingus's core personnel (Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson and Dannie Richmond) were capable of anything, and given Charles' inner demons, they needed spirit and strength to go exploring with him.
In the spring, when Mingus and the others were disappointed with the financial arrangements at the Newport Jazz Festival, Mingus hatched a plan, the Newport Rebel Festival.
Critics and musicians hailed the event. Still boiling, Mingus hit the studio. The Complete Candid Recordings of Charles Mingus was the result.
Results left musicans elated.
Mingus and his collaborators were elated. "I made it!" Richmond yelled after one take. "I finally got to play it like I've been hearing it." And Dolphy said, "We never got together like this in the club."
Three sessions in all were recorded. The first added Lonnie hillyer, Charles McPherson, Nico Bunick, Jimmy Knepper and Britt Woodman. One month later, Curson and Dolphy returned for three cuts on a date featuring Hillyer, McPherson, Booker Ervin and Paul Bley. Also that day, a remarkable jam was assembled--Mingus with Richmond, and Eric Dolphy, plus Jimmy Knepper, Jo Jones, Tommy Flanagan and Roy Eldridge!
Roy told the bass player, "A lot of the young ones...forget the basics. They don't get all the way down into the music. You did, baby."
Includes (at the time of this set's issuance by Mosaic) unissued masterpieces.
Four LPs include the two Mingus Candid albums, seven titles issued only on anthologies and five unissued masterpieces. A 12-page booklet includes essays, Nat Hentoff's original liner notes and newly-discovered photographs.
The LPs are used but in near mint condition. The box is in excellent condition.
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