Charles Mingus

[jostber]

Anyone heard this? Looks like interesting:

http://www.worldsrecords.com/cgi-bin/store...mp;phrase=63731

[Chuck Nessa]

It is a coupling of the 2 Bethlehem cds with the two Mingus titles from a Langston Hughes project issue on MGM, later reissued on VSP.

[clifford_thornton]

Great material, but I'm wondering how "gray" this label is.

[Chuck Nessa]

Not legal for sale in the US if that's what you mean.

[kh1958]

I believe the U.S. releases of the Bethleham material are readily available at a modest price, so I fail to understand why anyone would buy this collection.

[king ubu]

I've seen this in a store last week... don't need it as I have the Rhino/Avenue Jazz reissues of both "East Coasting" and "A Modern Symposium..." (what a silly title!). What I wondered though was about the Langston Hughes album - I'd love to hear it, is it out on CD? Of course in this 2CD set, only the half with music by Mingus is included, so this package hasn't much appeal to me...

[jostber]

Thanks for the input! Then I guess the Rhino or the Shout Factory or the Japanese Victor releases are the ones to get.

Here a review too: http://www.jazzreview.com/cd/review-17163.html

Edited February 11, 2009 by jostber

[kh1958]

Yes, though it appears to be out of print.

http://www.amazon.com/Weary-Blues-Charles-...7881&sr=1-1

I have it and didn't like the record very much (though it has been many years since I listened to it). The CD programing is also highly annoying as it is a single continuous track, with no indexing. I have a funny feeling this new issue is coincidentally the same.

Edited February 11, 2009 by kh1958

[king ubu]

Yes, though it appears to be out of print.

http://www.amazon.com/Weary-Blues-Charles-...7881&sr=1-1

I have it and didn't like the record very much (though it has been many years since I listened to it). The CD programing is also highly annoying as it is a single continuous track, with no indexing. I have a funny feeling this new issue is coincidentally the same.

Oh, shit, another case of crazy used sellers on amazon

I love Langston Hughes' poetry, so I'd love to hear this some day...

[kh1958]

Yes, though it appears to be out of print.

http://www.amazon.com/Weary-Blues-Charles-...7881&sr=1-1

I have it and didn't like the record very much (though it has been many years since I listened to it). The CD programing is also highly annoying as it is a single continuous track, with no indexing. I have a funny feeling this new issue is coincidentally the same.

Oh, shit, another case of crazy used sellers on amazon

I love Langston Hughes' poetry, so I'd love to hear this some day...

The CD is in fact a single 44 minute track. The Mingus group only plays the second half of the CD (Shafi Hadi, Jimmy Knepper, Horace Parlan, Kenny Dennis), the first half being "arranged and conducted by Leonard Feather" who is the producer of the record. The first group is not too shabby though, including Red Allen, Vic Dickenson and Milt Hinton.

[king ubu]

What, completely untracked? You don't even get a new track for side two of the LP? Weird! I dimly remember seing that CD in a store... yeah, thinking of it, I might have even left it there because I thought it was a bad copy because it was untracked... too bad, I guess I should have got it while it was still there!

[kh1958]

What, completely untracked? You don't even get a new track for side two of the LP? Weird! I dimly remember seing that CD in a store... yeah, thinking of it, I might have even left it there because I thought it was a bad copy because it was untracked... too bad, I guess I should have got it while it was still there!

Nope--it's one track! Even though the sleeve lists 15 different compositions. Way to go Verve.

[Enterprise Server]

Anything by Mingus is good. I love the mans music....

[jazzbo]

Well me too. But if I were these guys, I wouldn't sleep well when Sue Mingus was in town. . . .