The Complete Town Hall Concert
This article is about the 1962 live album. For the 1964 live album, see
Town Hall Concert .
1962 live album by Charles Mingus
The Complete Town Hall Concert live album by the American jazz musician Charles Mingus released on Blue Note label 1994.[ 1] the Town Hall in New York City in 1962. Some tracks were previously released on the United Artists label in 1962 as Town Hall Concert [ 2]
The concert was conceived as a "live workshop" of newly composed music which would be recorded for release by United Artists but rescheduling, lack of rehearsal time, poor sound and interruptions led to the event and subsequent album being considered a disaster.[ 3] Epitaph
Reception
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "Charles Mingus's Town Hall Concert has long been considered a famous fiasco, and the original United Artists LP (which contained just 36 minutes of music and did not bother identifying the personnel) made matters worse. But this 1994 Blue Note CD does its best to clean up the mess."[ 4]
The English rock band Radiohead cited The Complete Town Hall Concert as a major influence on their 2000 album Kid A . The songwriter, Thom Yorke , described it as "just fucking chaos ... There's this incredible tension and it was the most formative record of the whole time."[ 5]
Track listing
All compositions by Charles Mingus except as indicated
"Freedom Part 1" - 3:47
"Freedom Part 2" - 3:14
"Osmotin'" - 2:50 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Epitaph Part 1" - 7:03
"Peggy's Blue Skylight" - 5:21 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Epitaph Part 2" - 5:10
"My Search" - 8:09
"Portrait" - 4:34 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Duke's Choice" - 5:12
"Please Don't Come Back from the Moon" - 7:24 Bonus track on CD reissue
"In a Mellow Tone " (Duke Ellington , Milt Gabler ) - 8:21
"Epitaph Part 1" [alternate take] - 7:23 Bonus track on CD reissue
Personnel
Charles Mingus - bass , narration Ed Armour, Rolf Ericson , Lonnie Hillyer , Ernie Royal , Clark Terry , Richard Williams , Snooky Young - trumpet
Eddie Bert , Jimmy Cleveland , Willie Dennis , Paul Faulise, Quentin Jackson , Britt Woodman - trombone Romeo Penque - oboe
Danny Bank - bass clarinet Buddy Collette , Eric Dolphy , Charlie Mariano , Charles McPherson - alto saxophone George Berg, Zoot Sims - tenor saxophone
Pepper Adams , Jerome Richardson - baritone saxophone Warren Smith - vibraphone , percussion Toshiko Akiyoshi , Jaki Byard – piano Les Spann - guitar Milt Hinton - bassDannie Richmond - drums Grady Tate - percussionBob Hammer , Gene Roland - arranger Melba Liston - arranger, conductor
References
^ Charles Mingus discography accessed November 29, 2012^ Charles Mingus discography accessed November 29, 2012^ Gene Santoro (2000-06-06). "Town Hall Train Wreck" . The Village Voice. Retrieved 2012-11-29 . ^ a b The Complete Town Hall Concert - Charles Mingu... | AllMusic , retrieved 2024-06-15 ^ Zoric, Lauren (1 October 2000). "Fitter, Happier, More Productive" . Juice . Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2007 . ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 140. ISBN 0-394-72643-X
^ Cook, Richard ; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Penguin . p. 1003. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0
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