Mingus at the Bohemia

Mingus at the Bohemia
Live album by
Charles Mingus
ReleasedAugust 1956 (1956-08)[1]
RecordedDecember 23, 1955
VenueCafé Bohemia, New York City
GenreAvant-garde jazz
Length41:04
LabelDebut
Charles Mingus chronology
The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus
(1954) 		Mingus at the Bohemia
(1956) 		Pithecanthropus Erectus
(1956)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

Mingus at the Bohemia is a live album by the jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus. It was released in August 1956 through Mingus's own label Debut Records.[1][4] It was recorded at Café Bohemia in New York City on December 23, 1955. Max Roach makes a guest appearance on one track. Other recordings from the same performance were released in 1964 under the title The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach.

Mingus at the Bohemia has also been released under the title Chazz! and credited to The Charles Mingus Quintet.[5]

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4.5 stars, citing Mingus' standout bass playing and noting that "this is the first Mingus recording to feature mostly his own compositions."[2]


Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Jump Monk"Charles Mingus6:44
2."Serenade In Blue"Mack Gordon, Harry Warren5:57
3."Percussion Discussion"Mingus, Max Roach8:25
4."Work Song"Mingus6:16
5."Septemberly"Al Dubin, Harry Warren / Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence6:55
6."All The Things You C#"(Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II / Sergei Rachmaninoff)6:47


1990 Fantasy, Inc. CD reissue additional tracks:
No.TitleLength
7."Jump Monk (Alternate Take)"11:38
8."All The Things You C# (Alternate Take)"10:44


Notes:

  • "Septemberly" is Mingus' compositional combination of "September in the Rain" by Dubin and Warren, and "Tenderly" by Gross and Lawrence.
  • "All The Things You C#" is Mingus' compositional combination of "All The Things You Are" by Kern and Hammerstein, and "Prelude in C-sharp minor" by Rachmaninoff.
  • On some reissues, a brief spoken intro and false start are omitted from track 8 for a reduced length of 9:50.[2][6]


Personnel

Sources

  • Horst Weber, Gerd Filtg hi: Charles Mingus. Sein Leben, seine Musik, seine Schallplatten. Oreos, Gauting-Buchendorf, o.J., ISBN 3-923657-05-6
  • Marcus A. Woelfle: Liner Notes zu Charles Mingus - 80th Birthday Celebration (Fantasy)
  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide To Jazz On CD; Penguin, London, 2002.
  • Mal Waldron: Vinyl LP Liner Notes

References

  1. ^ a b "Reviews and Rating of New Albums". Google Books. Nielsen Business Media. 18 August 1956. pp. 48, 50. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  2. ^ a b c Allmusic review
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1001. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ "Charles Mingus Discography". www.jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  5. ^ "Charles Mingus – Mingus At The Bohemia (Master)". discogs.com. Retrieved on March 7, 2021.
  6. ^ "Charles Mingus – Mingus At The Bohemia (1990 Reissue)". discogs.com. Retrieved on March 7, 2021.