Sunny Side
2006
Music Written For Monterey 1965 Not Heard...Played In Its Entirety At Ucla
About This Album
The back story behind this concert CD is that, in September 1965, Charles Mingus performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival. He had done so triumphantly well the year before, however, Mingus' 1965 set was inexplicably cut short at a half-hour (Mingus himself claims 20 minutes) and so the material he had planned for the event, much of it newly composed, was instead unreeled at UCLA a week later. Mingus later pressed a couple hundred copies of the performance into a self-released two-LP set, but the master tape was hence destroyed and the album basically forgotten until its release on CD by Mingus' widow Sue in 2006. Fans of the musically peripatetic Mingus will marvel when they partake of this intimate "lost" music; despite its often unfinished, raw quality, it's powerful stuff -- at least when it's not falling apart for all to hear. On this rare document -- a complete Mingus concert, including dialogue, rough spots, harangues, flubs and all -- Mingus leads an octet, six of whom (Hobart Dotson, Lonnie Hillyer, Jimmy Owens, Charles McPherson, Julius Watkins, and the mighty tuba man Howard Johnson) are horn players; Mingus, of course, alternates between piano and bass, and the scorching Dannie Richmond is on drums.
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