Artist: The Charles Mingus Duo & Trio with Spaulding Givens & Max Roach
Album: Debut Rarities, Vol. 2
Genre: Bop, Hard Bop
Label: Original Jazz Classics
Released: 1992
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- What Is This Thing Called Love? (Porter) - 3:06
- Darn That Dream (DeLange-Van Heusen) - 3:43
- Yesterdays (piano solo) (Kern-Harbach) - 3:09
- Body and Soul (Green-Sour-Heyman-Eyton) - 3:38
- Blue Moon (Rodgers-Hart) - 3:37
- Blue Tide (Givens) - 3:15
- Darn That Dream (alternate take) (DeLange-Van Heusen) - 3:41
- Jeepers Creepers (take 1) (Warren-Mercer) - 3:41
- Jeepers Creepers (take 2) (Warren-Mercer) - 3:08
- Day Dream (take 1) (Ellington-Strayhorn-Latouche) - 3:46
- Day Dream (take 2) (Ellington-Strayhorn-Latouche) - 2:43
- Theme from Rhapsody in Blue (take 1) (Gershwin) - 3:29
- Theme from Rhapsody in Blue (take 2) (Gershwin) - 2:44
- Jet (take 1) (Benjamin-Weiss-Revel) - 2:48
- Jet (take 2) (Benjamin-Weiss-Revel) - 2:36
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Vol. 2 in the Original Jazz Classics CD reissue series of the complete Debut Records catalog reaches back toward the very beginnings of the Charles Mingus discography. Although he had recorded as a sideman and leader during the late '40s, the April 1951 duets with pianist Spaulding Givens (Nadi Qamar) are remarkable glimpses of Mingus actively participating in recording sessions for a label that he co-founded. On tracks ten through 15, the addition of Max Roach (who with Celia Mingus was also a co-founder of Debut Records) adds yet another level of creativity to the proceedings. This is chamber jazz of the highest order. It gently illuminates the challenging paths that these young musicians explored at a time when the future of jazz was indeterminate and pregnant with possibilities. Use these intimate essays to better understand where Ming was at in 1959, 1961, and 1974.
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