Charles Mingus

4 STARS DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE

INCLUDES 3 BONUS TRACKS

This complete original album "East Coasting" (Bethlehem BCP6019), featuring an all-star group with Jimmy Knepper, Bill Evans, Clarence Shaw and Curtis Porter, plus all existing alternate btakes from the date.

As a bonus, Mingus’ superb “Revelations” – recorded a couple of months earlier, it is the only other collaboration that Mingus and Evans ever made. Also included are two long standards from the October 1957 session by Mingus’ Jazz Workshop.

PERSONNEL:

CHARLES MINGUS, bass, arranger & leader
BILL EVANS, piano
CLARENCE SHAW, trumpet
JIMMY KNEPPER, trombone
SHAFI HADI [CURTIS PORTER], alto sax
DANNIE RICHMOND, drums

New York, August 1957.

[9-11] BONUS TRACKS (*):

[9]: Charles Mingus (voice and pizzicato bass), Bill Evans (p),
Art Farmer, Louis Mucci (tp), Jimmy Knepper (tb),
Jimmy Buffington (fhr), John LaPorta (as), Robert Di Domenica (fl),
Manuel Zegler (bassoon), Hal McKusick (as), Teo Macero (bar),
Teddy Charles (vib), Margaret Ross (harp), Barry Galbraith (g),
Fred Zimmerman (b), Ted Sommer (d),
Gunther Schuller, George Russell (arr, cond). New York, June 18, 1957.

[10-11]: Charles Mingus (b, arr, ldr), Jimmy Knepper (tb),
Shafi Hadi [Curtis Porter] (as & ts),
Horace Parlan (p), Dannie Richmond (d). New York, October 1957.

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

01. MEMORIES OF YOU
02. EAST COASTING
03. WEST COAST GHOST
04. CELIA
05. CONVERSATION
06. FIFTY-FIRST BLUES
07. EAST COASTING [alternative take]
08. MEMORIES OF YOU [alternative take]
09. REVELATIONS (*)
10. WOODY’N YOU (*)
11. BILLIE’S BOUNCE (*)

TOTAL TIME: 79:30 Min.