Charles Mingus

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

The music in this CD comes from no-professional privates tapes and its technical sound quality its no up to today's standarts. However, it is released because of the impotance of the musicians involved and of its high musical and historical value. Every effort has been made to improve the sound qualilty through advanced restoration technologies.

DE LUXE 3 CD-SET
NEWLY REMASTERED AND FOR THE FIRST TIME ON A SINGLE SET

INCLUDES A PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED BROADCAST

All existing Birdland broadcasts by the Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop of 1961-62.
These long unavailable broadcasts feature such important musicians as Booker Ervin, Yusef Lateef, Jimmy Knepper, Pepper Adams, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Charles McPherson, Jaki Byard, Toshiko Akiyoshi and Dannie Richmond.

Among the many highlights is the drumless broadcast of May 12, 1962, which presents two bassists on Mingus’ only existing live version of “Ysabel’s Table Dance”, from Tijuana Moods.
CHARLES MINGUS, bass, piano & leader, with:

COLLECTIVE PERSONNEL: Jimmy Knepper (trombone), Yusef Lateef (flute), Rahsaan Roland Kirk (tenor sax, manzello, stritch), Booker Ervin (tenor sax), Charles McPherson (alto sax), Pepper Adams (baritone sax), Richard Williams, Edward Armour (trumpet), Don Butterfield (tuba), Jaki Byard, Toshiko Akiyoshi (piano), Henry Grimes, Doug Watkins, Herman Wright (bass), Dannie Richmond (drums).

CD1, 1-3: October 21, 1961. CD1, 4-7: March 24, 1962. CD1, 8-10: March 31, 1962. CD2, 1-5: May 5, 1962. CD2, 6-9: May 12, 1962. CD3, 1-4: October 19, 1962. CD3, 5-8: October 26, 1962.