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| Charles Mingus - Jazz Workshop 1957-1958 **** |
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Fresh Sound FSR-CD535 (2 CDs) | Charles Mingus (b), Clarence Shaw/Bill Hardman (t), Jimmy Knepper (tb), Shafi Hadi (as, ts), Bill Evans/Bob Hammer/Horace Parlan (p), Dannie Richmond/Kenny Dennis (d) and Melvin Stewart/Langston Hughes (speech). Rec. Aug 1957-18 Mar 1958 With the current emphasis on the halfcentury anniversaries of famous albums done in 1959, there’s a tendency to think of Mingus classics as beginning with Mingus Ah Um and Mingus Dynasty (not to forget Blues And Roots, of course). But before ’59, there was not only Pithecanthropus, The Clown and Tijuana Moods but, immediately after them, the two-and-ahalf excellent LPs included here. Mention of the album titles East Coasting and Modern Jazz Symposium (aka “New York Sketchbook”, which also contains ‘Scenes In The City’) should be a sufficient reminder of the excellent trumpeter Shaw, while Bill Evans is no slouch on the former. The opportunity has been taken to restore Mingus’ preferred running-order for the latter and to include the rare extra takes from both albums that only surfaced in the mid-1990s. The icing on the cake is the addition of the poetryand-jazz with Langston Hughes, important both in its own right (remember the phrase “a dream deferred”?) and in documenting Mingus’ involvement with the written word. But then all the purely instrumental stuff is highly significant in Mingus’ own musical development. Brian Priestley
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