Town Hall Concert [LIVE]

Charles Mingus

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1991)
• Original Release Date: April 4, 1964
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Ojc
• ASIN: B000000Y2N
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #174,465 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Desert Island Album, December 14, 1998

By	Webb Haymaker "Social Worker" (New Orleans, LA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is up ther for me with some of the best albums by Thelonius Monk and Bill Evans and John Coltrane. It might be my all time favorite. Dolphy is sensational. Everyone is sensational. Clifford Jordan! Jackie Byard's pedaled turnaround 5 minutes into so long Eric is so well placed. Blues soloing at it's best. McCoy Tyner type pedaling! Hey! This assemblage of musicians (Dolpy, Mingus etc) is I the best assempblage of talent outside of the Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans, Cannonball group. It's a concert to the NAACP and the short speech Mingus gives between the cuts gives the CD even more grounding and power. I just stopped by this site because I'm buying for a freidn of mine for X-mas. I have a lot of Mingus albums, and this is hands-down the best I've got.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tight, insightful show, October 11, 2002

By	Kepros (Nampa, ID USA) - See all my reviews

What a great window into the power of live Mingus. Compositionally, both songs are beautiful little soundtracks that blend seamlessly into the improvisational guts of each. A better album consisting of a seventeener and a twenty-seven minute bohemoth is hard to imagine-- Praying with Eric, or "Meditations for a Pair of Wire Cutters," never drags, never lulls. Truly gripping jazz that only Mingus could accomplish.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mingus' best live band, hands down..., May 22, 2002

By A Customer

The personnel on this album is the same personnel that Mingus would take to Europe shortly after this album was recorded, and I have CD's of most of the shows on that tour. This was amongst the best of the performances that they did, and one of only two that you'll find with Johnny Coles. He adds a lot to the proceedings, and the group as a whole makes for some truly great music. Here, you only get two songs, but great songs they are, and I have NEVER heard a better version of So Long Eric. (how prophetic and ironic of a title was THAT one?) Highly, and I do mean, HIGHLY recommended.