MIngus, Carter, the White House, 18 June 1978

[gvopedz]

For those who have not yet seen this blog:

Charles Mingus’ final public appearance took place on June 18, 1978 when he was invited to participate in the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Newport Jazz Festival that took place on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., organized by President Jimmy Carter’s office and George Wein, the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival.

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[clifford_thornton]

Thanks for this. I know the photos/circumstances but hadn't seen the clip of "Salt Peanuts" with Carter... wow.

[JSngry]

The event was broadcast live on NPR. Surely tapes exist.

[sonnymax]

 

https://www.charlesmingus.com/blog/farewell-president-jimmy-carter

Edited yesterday at 03:55 PM by sonnymax

[JSngry]

Yeah, there that is. One hopes that NPR has their OG tapes responsibly archived. Maybe with the Smithsonian?

[clifford_thornton]

NPR has their own archive, but I'm not sure how far back it goes in-house. I knew a couple archivists there, though they've moved on to other institutions. It seemed like they've been an extremely thorough operation but as an archivist myself I can tell you that once layers of the onion get peeled back, surprises (both good and bad) are prevalent.

[Ken Dryden]

I only dubbed part of it as it aired live, I remember I ran out of tape during at least one song, while some excerpts were eventually rebroadcast, possibly on Jazz Alive! I still don't have it all recorded.

This day was easily one of the highlights of Jimmy Carter's administration.

 

[medjuck]

In Sue Mingus's book Tonight at Noon she tells how, right after Carter came over to Mingus, George Wein -- over a microphone-- began asking Mingus to stand up and take a bow which of course he couldn't do. Instead he broke into tears. 

[T.D.]

I remember that. The clip of Pres. Carter singing Salt Peanuts was all over TV. It made the nightly news IIRC.

Edited 21 hours ago by T.D.

[romualdo]

9 hours ago, JSngry said:

The event was broadcast live on NPR. Surely tapes exist.

I have the complete concert plus speeches etc over 3CDrs that I made from files someone traded with me (or I found & downloaded online) a few years ago now

Edited 14 hours ago by romualdo

[Gheorghe]

I have two tracks I got traded: Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gorden, George Benson, Hancock, Carter, Williams: "April" and "Caravan". That´s great. To bad there was not a whole record of THIS ALLSTAR FORMATION, it would have been something like the Allstar Gathering of Massey Hall. To have Diz with Tony Williams, man Tony really spurred Diz to heights. 

I think an equal eveniment was the 1980 Diz with James Moody, Milt Jackson, Hank Jones, Ray Brown and Philly Joe Jones. Other that Miles, I fear that Dizzy didn´t have such a good choice for drummers like he had in the beginnings. Kenny Clark and Max Roach was it. But later? He should have had more daring drummers. Well....Mickey Roker was great.