The Complete Town Hall Concert
The Complete Town Hall Concert | ||||
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Live album by Charles Mingus | ||||
Released | 1962 1994 CD reissue with bonus tracks | |||
Recorded | October 12, 1962 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | United Artists UAJ 14024 Blue Note CDP 7243 | |||
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The Complete Town Hall Concert is a live album by the American jazz musician Charles Mingus released on Blue Note label 1994.[1] It was recorded at the Town Hall in New York City in 1962. Some tracks were previously released on the United Artists label in 1962 as Town Hall Concert.[2]
The concert was conceived as a "live workshop" of newly composed music which would be recorded for release by United Artists but rescheduling, lack of rehearsal time, poor sound and interruptions led to the event and subsequent album being considered a disaster.[3] Much of the music intended for the performance was finally realized by conductor Gunther Schuller in a concert in 1989 as Epitaph.
Reception
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "Charles Mingus's Town Hall Concert has long been considered a famous fiasco, and the original United Artists LP (which contained just 36 minutes of music and did not bother identifying the personnel) made matters worse. But this 1994 Blue Note CD does its best to clean up the mess."[4]
The English rock band Radiohead cited The Complete Town Hall Concert as a major influence on their 2000 album Kid A. The songwriter, Thom Yorke, described it as "just fucking chaos ... There's this incredible tension and it was the most formative record of the whole time."[5]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [7] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [6] |
Track listing
All compositions by Charles Mingus except as indicated
- "Freedom Part 1" - 3:47
- "Freedom Part 2" - 3:14
- "Osmotin'" - 2:50 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Epitaph Part 1" - 7:03
- "Peggy's Blue Skylight" - 5:21 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Epitaph Part 2" - 5:10
- "My Search" - 8:09
- "Portrait" - 4:34 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Duke's Choice" - 5:12
- "Please Don't Come Back from the Moon" - 7:24 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) - 8:21
- "Epitaph Part 1" [alternate take] - 7:23 Bonus track on CD reissue
Personnel
- Charles Mingus - bass, narration
- Ed Armour, Rolf Ericson, Lonnie Hillyer, Ernie Royal, Clark Terry, Richard Williams, Snooky Young - trumpet
- Eddie Bert, Jimmy Cleveland, Willie Dennis, Paul Faulise, Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman - trombone
- Romeo Penque - oboe
- Danny Bank - bass clarinet
- Buddy Collette, Eric Dolphy, Charlie Mariano, Charles McPherson - alto saxophone
- George Berg, Zoot Sims - tenor saxophone
- Pepper Adams, Jerome Richardson - baritone saxophone
- Warren Smith - vibraphone, percussion
- Toshiko Akiyoshi, Jaki Byard – piano
- Les Spann - guitar
- Milt Hinton - bass
- Dannie Richmond - drums
- Grady Tate - percussion
- Bob Hammer, Gene Roland - arranger
- Melba Liston - arranger, conductor
References
- ^ Charles Mingus discography accessed November 29, 2012
- ^ Charles Mingus discography accessed November 29, 2012
- ^ Gene Santoro (2000-06-06). "Town Hall Train Wreck". The Village Voice. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
- ^ a b The Complete Town Hall Concert - Charles Mingu... | AllMusic, retrieved 2024-06-15
- ^ Zoric, Lauren (1 October 2000). "Fitter, Happier, More Productive". Juice. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2007.
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 140. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1003. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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albums
- The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus
- Jazz Composers Workshop
- Pithecanthropus Erectus
- The Clown
- East Coasting
- Mingus Three
- A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry
- Mingus Ah Um
- Blues & Roots
- Mingus Dynasty
- Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
- Pre-Bird
- Mingus
- Oh Yeah
- Tijuana Moods
- Money Jungle
- The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
- Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
- Tonight at Noon
- Mingus Plays Piano
- Blue Bird
- Pithycanthropus Erectus
- Let My Children Hear Music
- Mingus Moves
- Changes One
- Changes Two
- Three or Four Shades of Blues
- His Final Work
- Cumbia & Jazz Fusion
- Something Like a Bird
- Charles Mingus with Orchestra
- Reincarnation of a Lovebird
albums
- Mingus at the Bohemia (1956)
- Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959)
- The Complete Town Hall Concert (1962)
- The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1963)
- Astral Weeks (1964)
- Town Hall Concert (1964)
- Revenge! (1964)
- The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (1964)
- Mingus in Europe Volume I (1964)
- Mingus in Europe Volume II (1964)
- Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964)
- Mingus at Monterey (1964)
- My Favorite Quintet (1965)
- Music Written for Monterey 1965 (1965)
- Charles Mingus Sextet In Berlin (1970)
- Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972)
- Mingus at Antibes (1974)
- Mingus at Carnegie Hall (1974)
- Cornell 1964 (2007)
- Beneath the Underdog (1971 autobiography)
- Mingus Big Band
- Mingus Dynasty
- Sue Mingus
- Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)
- Weary Blues (1958)
- Newport Rebels (1960)
- Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1964)
- Mingus (1979)
- Epitaph (1990)
- Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968
- Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (1998 documentary)