Pupil Nana Akiyama (25.02.2006)

Charles Mingus - Music Written for Monterey, 1965, Not heard…played in its entirety at UCLA, September 25, 1965 (2006)
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© 1965, 2006 Sue Mingus Music / Sunnyside Communications | 984 275-9
Jazz / Post Bop / Progressive Jazz

The back story behind this concert CD is that, in September 1965, Charles Mingus performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival. He had done so triumphantly well the year before, however, Mingus' 1965 set was inexplicably cut short at a half-hour (Mingus himself claims 20 minutes) and so the material he had planned for the event, much of it newly composed, was instead unreeled at UCLA a week later. Mingus later pressed a couple hundred copies of the performance into a self-released two-LP set, but the master tape was hence destroyed and the album basically forgotten until its release on CD by Mingus' widow Sue in 2006.

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