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Originally Posted by [iorxhscimtor]
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Thanks again, [iorxhscimtor].
This bootleg is also at this blog:
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cachePwpSHSLaAkJ:live-bootleg.blogspot.com/2007/04/charles-mingus-live-in-chateauvalon.html+mingus+1972&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&g l=us
(same link)
Kudos for the announcement.
I'm finally getting around to listening to this tonight. It sounds great and is from French National Radio rebroadcast. Here are my notes of the stickler variety:
Charles Mingus Quartet
Theatre National de la Danse et de l'Image de Châteauvallon (TNDI)
(near Toulon), France FM sbd
8/22/72
1 Ellington Medley (26:46)
2
Fables of Faubus (27:46)
3 Diane (Body & Soul) (4:35)
4 Blues for Some Bones (15:31)
Track 1, "Ellington Medley," is roughly Blues in G (bass solo)/Stormy Weather > In a Sentimental Mood > Sophisticated Lady > Mood Indigo and finishes up by quoting a bit from Billy Strayhorn's "Take the 'A' Train."
Track 4, "Blues for Some Bones," includes (roughly) a compostion called "John's Blues" with impromptu vocals, a section "Blues for Saw," and "Noddin' Ya Head Blues."
Dexter Gordon and Cat Anderson missed the gig, perhaps since it was at the TNDI way out in the country. That's okay, Mingus and Co. proceed to get "way out" without them.
Charles McPherson (as)
John Russel Foster (p)
Charles Mingus (b)
Roy Brooks (d, saw & vocals on track 4)
biographical notes:
In 1972, Mingus turned fifty. He re-signed with Columbia Records.
Quote:
http://www.nathanielturner.com/charlesmingus.htm
Alvin Ailey choreographed an hour program called "The Mingus Dances" during a 1972 collaboration with the Robert Joffrey Ballet Company. Mingus received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Smithsonian Institute, and two grants from the Guggenheim Foundation. Mingus also received an honorary degree from Brandeis and an award from Yale University. "For sheer melodic and rhythmic and structural originality," The New Yorker wrote, "his compositions may equal anything written in western music in the twentieth century." His autobiography, Beneath the Underdog, published by Knopf, appeared in 1972 as a Bantam paperback and was reissued after his death, in 1980, by Viking/Penguin and again by Pantheon Books, in 1991.
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