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.

[mr jazz]

Anyone pickup the Freddie Hubbard yet?

[felser]

5 minutes ago, mr jazz said:

Anyone pickup the Freddie Hubbard yet?

CD's in the mail to me from DeepDiscount, due for delivery Saturday, along with the Mingus and the Dorham.

[jazzbo]

I ordered those three from Resonance Records themselves, hopefully I'll get them soon.

[Clunky]

1 hour ago, mr jazz said:

Anyone pickup the Freddie Hubbard yet?

Its a cracker - based on my listening to 2 out of the 3 LPs in the vinyl edition 

[hbbfam]

Regarding the Kenny Dorham CD.  The last part of track 6 and all of track 7 are unlistenable.  One other member of the SH forum noted a similar problem.  Anyone here?

[david weiss]

4 hours ago, hbbfam said:

Regarding the Kenny Dorham CD.  The last part of track 6 and all of track 7 are unlistenable.  One other member of the SH forum noted a similar problem.  Anyone here?

Can you please elaborate or provide a link to the discussion of this on the SH board please? Thanks 

[adh1907]

4 hours ago, hbbfam said:

Regarding the Kenny Dorham CD.  The last part of track 6 and all of track 7 are unlistenable.  One other member of the SH forum noted a similar problem.  Anyone here?

Correct. The tracks are unplayable. Jumping, stuttering, stalling. I’m sending the CD back.
 

Who signed off this Kenny Dorham CD? Where is the quality control. Dreadful. I am requesting a refund. Don’t buy this CD. 

Edited Monday at 09:14 PM by adh1907

[felser]

34 minutes ago, adh1907 said:

Correct. The tracks are unplayable. Jumping, stuttering, stalling. I’m sending the CD back.
 

Who signed off this Kenny Dorham CD? Where is the quality control. Dreadful. I am requesting a refund. Don’t buy this CD. 

Try playing it on a different player.  I played cut 7 on my usual Sony player, and experienced the jumping in some places.  I then played cuts 6 and 7 on an Arafuna portable CD player I use, which has a good anti-skip feature, and the cuts played fine except for one brief jump on cut 7, which could have been caused by my cat being around  the player on the desk.  The disc does not have great fidelity, but it's good enough (think of those live at the Left Bank CD's for comparison), and the music is pretty wonderful.

Edited Monday at 09:38 PM by felser

[hbbfam]

Have people downloaded via Bandcamp?  Similar issues?  I would like the music.

[tranemonk]

6 minutes ago, hbbfam said:

Have people downloaded via Bandcamp?  Similar issues?  I would like the music.

I did and I do not recall any major sound issues with the Dorham. I would have to go back a second time and hear it again.

[adh1907]

Nothing to do with fidelity, tracks 6 and 7 of the CD are not playable. Sony portable, Marantz separate. Something has gone wrong here. Do not buy this CD, it’s faulty. 

[david weiss]

50 minutes ago, adh1907 said:

Correct. The tracks are unplayable. Jumping, stuttering, stalling. I’m sending the CD back.
 

Who signed off this Kenny Dorham CD? Where is the quality control. Dreadful. I am requesting a refund. Don’t buy this CD. 

Sounds like a manufacturing issue or an issue with the actual CD master (which is usually a DDP file) but most likely a pressing defect. 

I guess we see if more people weigh in.....

[hbbfam]

1 hour ago, hbbfam said:

Have people downloaded via Bandcamp?  Similar issues?  I would like the music.

 

1 hour ago, david weiss said:

Sounds like a manufacturing issue or an issue with the actual CD master (which is usually a DDP file) but most likely a pressing defect. 

I guess we see if more people weigh in.....

I just listened to track 6 and 7 via the Bandcamp website.  They are the full tracks.  They sound wonderful.  If the Amazon replacement CD doesn't meet this standard, back it goes and I will get the dl.  Should have done that in the first place.

[JSngry]

My tracks 6 & 7 are playing just fine, although I think there's a splice or two towards the end of the piano solo on #7?

Otherwise, no problems.

[adh1907]

So, track 7 will play in my car but track 6 still has glitches and skips towards the end. I’ll send it back (Juno in the UK) see what I get in return…

[Pim]

So now cd's got pressing errors as well? That's silly.

[Ken Dryden]

I had the exact same problem with the first copy I received, both of the last two tracks were unplayable. But the second one worked perfectly.

The matrix / runout looks identical for both copies, so maybe some of them were damaged in the packing process.