Charles Mingus, Kenny Dorham, Freddie Hubbard for RSD 2025

[ghost of miles]

These will be out on CD as well in the weeks following RSD:

Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa In The Bronx

Freddie Hubbard, On Fire at the Blue Morocco

Charles Mingus, In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts

 

RDS 2025 full list of releases

[ghost of miles]

From a press release for the Freddie Hubbard:

On the newly unearthed collection On Fire: Live from the Blue Morocco, legendary trumpeter Freddie Hubbard is heard at his ferocious peak. This unissued 1967 performance, recorded at Sylvia Robinson’s Bronx Club with an all-star band featuring Bennie Maupin, Kenny Barron, Herbie Lewis and Freddie Waits, is due from Resonance Records as a limited edition 3-LP set on Record Store Day, April 12, 2025, with the CD edition to follow on April 18.

“This recording is insane! It’s one of the most exciting live documents I’ve ever heard in my life,” says renowned trumpeter Steven Bernstein. "It’s f!cking mind-blowing. Freddie’s on fire. It's just so damn good.”

The package includes new interviews with Maupin and Barron, notes by jazz authority John Koenig, appreciations and Interviews with Charles Tolliver, Eddie Henderson, Steven Bernstein, Jeremy Pelt and more.

 

From a press release for the Kenny Dorham:

I’m honored to be working with Resonance records and producer Zev Feldman on a never-before-heard live recording from master hard bop trumpeter Kenny Dorham.  Out as a 2-LP set for Record Store Day, April 12, 2025 and on CD April 18, the storming all-star club date Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live from the Blue Morocco features Dorham with alto saxophonist Sonny Red, pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Denis Charles. 

The package features liner notes by two-time Grammy winner Bob Blumenthal; a Dorham appreciation by Dan Morgenstern, the late director of Rutgers University’s Institute of Jazz Studies and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master; remembrances from trumpeters Eddie Henderson, Charles Tolliver, Steven Bernstein, and Jeremy Pelt; and more. It was recorded by Bernard Drayton in 1967 at the titular New York venue. 

 

From a press release for the Mingus:

I, for one, can’t ever get enough Mingus and I’m excited to be working with Resonance Records on In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts, a brilliant 3-LP live recording of Charles Mingus’ little-heard late-70s working quintet.  

The album – featuring Mingus with trumpeter Jack Walrath, tenor saxophonist Ricky Ford, pianist Robert Neloms and drummer Dannie Richmond – will be out April 12, 2025 as a limited edition three-LP Record Store Day exclusive, followed by a two-CD set on April 18.

Recorded in concert at the Teatro Coliseo and the Teatro Sociedad Hebraica Argentina (SHA) on June 2-3, 1977, the first authorized release of these dates comes with an expansive package including notes from Mingus biographer Brian Priestley, reflections of the concerts from Argentinian writer Claudio Parisi, new interviews with band members Jack Walrath and Ricky Ford and more.

[HutchFan]

All of those look very interesting.  Thanks for the heads-up, ghost. 

 

[felser]

Agreed, will pick up all three on CD.  Especially that Hubbard (despite 24 minutes of "Bye Bye Blackbird")!  I also noticed a 1978 live Talking Heads release buried in the listings - that sounds promising in theory.

[colinmce]

Very intrigued by Denis Charles on that Dorham set.

[Niko]

1 hour ago, colinmce said:

Very intrigued by Denis Charles on that Dorham set.

Previously, that credit was to Russ Charles or Hersh Charles... Denis sure is the more intriguing possibility... Wonder whether it's just intuition or whether there's actual evidence...

https://jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/DorhamKenny-ldr.php

 

[colinmce]

4 minutes ago, Niko said:

Previously, that credit was to Russ Charles or Hersh Charles... Denis sure is the more intriguing possibility... Wonder whether it's just intuition or whether there's actual evidence...

https://jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/DorhamKenny-ldr.php

 

Is does strike me as only scarcely possible. For one, it's unclear how he would be in someone like Kenny Dorham's orbit at that time, and it's just in the timeframe of his last recordings for several years. Guess we'll see what kind of documentation they have to support it.

(I also think it would be immediately evident if it was him playing)

[kh1958]

All three sets are up for preorder on the Resonance website.