Cornell 1964
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Performer: Charles Mingus SextetPerformer: Eric Dolphy
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2007-07-17
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Opening
- ATFW You
- Sophisticated Lady
- Fables Of Faubus
- Orange Was the Coulour Of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk
- That the 'A' Train
- Meditations
- So Long Eric
- When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
- Jitterbug Waltz
Free Music Notes for Cornell 1964
Free Music Review: A prime example of the Mingus band in action.
Hit: 5 Stars
The discovery of previously unissued material by major artists does not always deliver on its apparent promise, but this heretofore unknown date is not only of historic significance, but is also a prime example of the Mingus band in action.
It was recorded at Cornell University in March, shortly before the European tour of 1964, and features a line-up of Mingus's ever-changing Jazz Workshop that has not been preserved in studio recordings.
The two-disc set not only adds a new slice of high-quality music to the Mingus catalogue, but also extends the available material from saxophonist Eric Dolphy, who is prominently featured here (three months before his death in Berlin) alongside Clifford Jordan on tenor saxophone, Johnny Coles on trumpet, pianist Jaki Byard, Dannie Richmond on drums, and the magisterial Mingus on bass.
They make amazing music: the incredible dynamism of the compositions is captured perfectly by an ensemble that manages to be wild and controlled at the same time.
Even more than his bass-playing, it's this prodigious bandleading feat - which musicians today still aspire to - that lies at the heart of Mingus' genius and continued relevance.
This two-disc package is a perfect chance to check out the magic - live and undiluted.
Essential listening for Mingus fans, and equally recommended for anyone with an interest in 1960s jazz.
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The band that Charles Mingus, the doyen of jazz's mercurial polymaths, pulled together for his early-1964 European tour was phenomenal—and here they are playing 130 minutes worth of live music no one's ever heard. Pianist Jaki Byard, alto saxophonist/flutist/bass clarinetist Eric Dolphy, tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan, trumpeter Johnny Coles, and longtime drummer Dannie Richmond came together for the Mingus tour knowing that Dolphy would be staying in Europe after their gigs—he died tragically just 12 weeks after this gig. And Coles would come perilously close to death himself with a stomach ulcer within a month of the band's Cornell date, forcing him off the tour. So the music here is particularly special and musically resplendent. There is considerable overlap with the The Great Concert of Charles Mingus, but that 2-CD set is sans the ailing Coles, who fattens the sound here: playing beautifully as "Johnny O'Coles" on the unlikely "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling." But Eric Dolphy, his every breath is poetry: from his palpitating bass clarinet on the pugnacious "Fables of Faubus" to the tipsy, whirling flute he plays on "Jitterbug Waltz," a tune he loved playing. The sound here is less crisp than The Great Concert, thick in the middle and ill-defined when it comes to Richmond's drums, leaving the group's interplay like an ear-magnet. "Take the 'A' Train" pays soulful, blossoming homage to Billy Strayhorn even as you can hear the band tightening their grip collectively, learning to fly as a unit. Unheard music of this caliber demands a listen, and here the rewards are bountiful. --Andrew BartlettJazz Music CDs
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