Jazz for aficionados

"Mingus at Antibes" is one fantastic album; I would have said that it's impossible for any "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" to be better than the original, but here it is. Who ever first posted this gets "The aficionado 5 star award".


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OCrWScxtmA



Mingus at Antibes was originally issued by BYG Records under the title Charles Mingus Live With Eric Dolphy in Japan in 1974. It was recorded at a live 1960 performance at the Jazz à Juan festival at Juan-les-Pins by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus; and was re-released by Atlantic Records in more complete form as a double album with the title Mingus In Antibes in the United States in 1976.

The album captures a performance at Jazz à Juan, and features some of Mingus's then regular musicians in a generally piano-less quintet, though the band is joined by Bud Powell on "I'll Remember April", and Mingus himself plays some piano on "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" and "Better Git Hit in Your Soul".


Track Listing;

"Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" – 11:54 (included on both BYG and Atlantic issues)
"Prayer For Passive Resistance" – 8:06 (included on Atlantic issues only)
"What Love?" – 13:34 (included on Atlantic issues only)
"I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul) – 13:39 (included on Atlantic issues only)
"Folk Forms I" – 11:08 (included on both BYG and Atlantic issues)
"Better Git Hit In Your Soul" – 11:00 (included on both BYG and Atlantic issues)


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcDLFXoFuOk




Charles Mingus – bass, piano (on tracks 1 and 6)
Ted Curson – trumpet
Eric Dolphy – alto saxophone, bass clarinet (on track 3)
Booker Ervin – tenor saxophone (except on track 3)
Dannie Richmond – drums
Bud Powell – piano (on track 4)
 


The different personnel take these originals to a higher level with even more energy; this will be added to my collection ASAP

Folks, this is one of the greatest tunes in the history of jazz. I wont tell you what it is, but perusing my memory over many years, when a person discovers that I'm into jazz, they ask me if I've heard this tune, and this has happened countless times.

As you know, I listen to music the same as someone listens to the radio, it just plays endlessly, and I have to identify it by my memory of the tune. Sometime my memory is out to lunch, so I just enjoy the music. It's at those times that I can hear with clarity, because I don't know who the artists are, I only know how good the music is.



          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I777BcgQL9o

rok, I was not familiar with Gary BB Coleman, but I surely liked that number.

o10, that Ray Charles was the one that got everyone up dancing at parties in the early '60s.

"Mingus at Antibes" was lost for some time before release, right?  I know "Tijuana Moods" self proclaimed to be Charlies' favorite album, but I thought later he said it was the Antibes recording.

Now for fans of Miles who may not have heard this, I just discovered a great interview with Carlos Santana and his perspectives on Miles.  It runs nearly half an hour so make sure you have time if you begin it.  Pretty obvious they had a solid connection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3MvGWFocS8 

***** Folks, this is one of the greatest tunes in the history of jazz.*****

From one of the greatest Jazz albums in the history of Jazz.   Funny, this and 'Antibes' never get mentioned in the 'debate' over greatest Jazz album of all time.  Also 'Ellington at Newport'.  

Cheers

Deodato:

Generic '70s percussion exhibition.  A little goes a long way.

Cheers