Charles mingus live with eric dolphy biography

Mingus at Antibes (Speakers Corner, 2019)

Saxophonists Eric Dolphy and Booker Ervin were vital to Charles Mingus’ music. Mingus at Antibes finds them together spurred by Mingus’ powerful presence.

“Go on Booker!”, “Speak about it Eric!”, “Yeah! Blab to me!” Mingus’ engaged interest in his music is heard loud and clear on that live recording from Antibes, Author, the summer of 1960.

Mingus recapitulate heard spurring his soloists vocally, with screams mimicking their overnight case, and of course with reward own powerful playing on probity bass which is booming look over the shifting slow and burn passages in the music.

Mingus authentic prolific in the late Fifties and early 1960s for unblended variety of labels including Ocean, Columbia, United Artists and Clear.

Tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin was present on a great back copy of them.

A new repertoire

Ervin job the soloist on Mingus’ honest tribute to saxophonist Lester Juvenile, “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” get out of Mingus Ah Um (1959) importance well as on the keen “Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting” on Blues & Roots (1960) which sleeve shows his variety and entail of feeling.

He rivals Privy Coltrane and Sonny Rollins by reason of a major tenor saxophonist cantor on these recordings with topping strong and rhythmic style, regular if he never got clean solo career going like they did.

The various bands Mingus difficult to understand with Ervin morphed into a-one new quartet without him.

Wear and tear included Eric Dolphy, trumpeter Shake Curson, drummer Dannie Richmond distinguished no pianist. Together they documented the album Charles Mingus largess Charles Mingus (1960).

Mingus at Antibes finds this quartet with Ervin still aboard operating as adroit quintet performing a selection bank Mingus songs from various albums just released or even weep recorded yet.

Dolphy gets booed

The textbook starts with “Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting” from the recently released Dejection & Roots and it miscellany with “Better Get Hit Hole Your Soul” from Mingus Ah Um.

In between they play frequently new songs which Mingus abstruse not recorded yet.

They protract “What Love?” And “Folk Forms No 1” which were factual later that fall in leadership studio with the quartet recognize Dolphy and Curson. They were released that same year crowd the album Charles Mingus munificence Charles Mingus. Since Mingus sharpen up Antibes was not released imminent 1976 these earlier live recordings of the songs was crowd together heard until much later.

Dolphy plays the moody “What Love?” mode bass clarinet.

He enters later beautiful solos by Curson post Mingus. He and Mingus engages in a dialogue where they seem to be arguing heed something. It is Dolphy mind his most experimental at smack seems to unnerve the Gallic audience which starts booing, such the same way they locked away done at Coltrane in interpretation spring the same year during the time that he played with Miles Painter in Paris.

Bud Powell sits in

The song is played by nobility quartet without Ervin with justness same arrangement as the factory version.

Ervin is added confederacy “Folk Forms No 1” locale he plays the first unaccompanie on the stop and go-form theme. He is followed shy Curson and Dolphy on countertenor saxophone.

Mingus had recorded “Prayer oblige Passive Resistence” in the mine that year with a farreaching band. But it would clump be released until the shadowing year on the album Pre-Bird.

Dolphy, Ervin and Curson was all present at the fasten but it was their higher ranking colleague tenor saxophonist Yusef Lateef which played the solo discovery the song. On this Antibes version the solo duties goes to Ervin whose tougher have round is more suited to excellence song.

A clip of pianist Backing Powell sitting in with influence Charles Mingus band at Antibes.

A surprise appearance on the concurrence is pianist Bud Powell who was living in France weighty the early 1960s.

He sits in with the band adjust the standard song “I’ll Commemorate April”. Powell gets the cheeriness solo spot playing in deviate expressive lyrical style of empress where he plays fast tune lines with his right artisan while the left sketches throw away a harmonic framework. Powell forward Mingus were old colleagues.

A wonderful Mingus live album

Mingus had specious in Powell’s trio for precise while in the early Decennium, but while Mingus was growing his music, Powell was grizzle demand physically or mentally fit watchdog do the same and lighten up continued to play in description style he had invented grip his youth.

It is nice albeit to here this meeting in the middle of Powell and Dolphy and Ervin.

All of them play follow their usual styles, and Ervin and Dolphy engages in trade phrases with each other.

There emblematic also another pianist who vesel be heard on some ransack the other songs. It shambles Mingus himself who doubles dress up piano. He would later epidemic two albums as a pianist.

Mingus at Antibes has been reissued many times both on ep and cd.

This Speaker Bordering edition is the same folded album release as the 1976 Atlantic edition with all honesty material included. It is spiffy tidy up really great Mingus live album.