7th CD Added to Charles Mingus Limited Edition Collection Featuring Previously Unreleased Music!
October 12, 2012 at 1:35 AM This sounds like it's going to be fabulous ~ I know that there are a lot of salivating Mingus fans waiting for for the big day (Oct 30th, 2012) to get here! Read what Mosaic Records founder Michael Cuscuna has to say about the seventh CD - just scroll down past the Press Release.
PRESS RELEASE
Project Celebrates Mingus' 90th Birthday Anniversary
Listen to a Streaming Track From The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65
Because this is the 90th birthday anniversary year of Charles Mingus, Sue Mingus called last spring to ask Michael Cuscuna whether he might be interested in issuing some of the unreleased Mingus tapes she had in the archives. It didn't take long to make such a decision! "What makes this collection even more appealing is the fact that, of the seven discs in the collection, only one of them has even been available on an authorized CD," explains Cuscuna. "Almost two full CDs have never been available on CD at all, and more than two hours worth of music include new discoveries -- appearing for the first time ever, in any form."
Charles Mingus was always the most incandescent of jazz's few true geniuses, and the mid-1960s was undoubtedly one of the most tumultuous periods in his - and America's - storied history. In Mingus' case, that personal, social and political upheaval was the recipe for some of his most ferociously creative output, represented here by five intense, combustible concerts by some of his most legendary groups with works that range from his interpretations of Ellington, tributes to his musicians such as Eric Dolphy (with "Praying With Eric"), and an enormously ambitious portrait of bop called "Parkeriana," to several of Mingus' own spectacular tunes.
