Jazz Composers Workshop
1956 studio album by Charles Mingus
Jazz Composers Workshop | ||||
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Studio album by Charles Mingus | ||||
Released | April 1956[1] | |||
Recorded | October 31, 1954 (#1-4, 9-10) January 30, 1955 (#5-8) | |||
Studio | Van Gelder (Hackensack) | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 41:25 | |||
Label | Savoy MG 12059 | |||
Producer | Ozzie Cadena | |||
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Jazz Composers Workshop is an album featuring jazz bassist Charles Mingus. It combines the earlier album Moods of Mingus with a Wally Cirillo session released earlier on the album Wally Cirillo & Bobby Scott. It was released on the Savoy label.[2]
Reception
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "The complex music on this LP finds bassist Charles Mingus looking toward contemporary classical music in some of the rather cool-toned arrangements. It was not until later in 1955 that he found the right combination of influences in which to express himself best but these slightly earlier performances have their moments".[3]
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AllMusic | [3] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [4] |
Track listing
- All compositions by Charles Mingus, except as indicated
- "Purple Heart" - 5:36
- "Gregarian Chant" - 2:51
- "Eulogy for Rudy Williams" - 6:22
- "Tea for Two" - 6:19 (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans)
- "Smog L.A." - 3:14 (Wally Cirillo)
- "Level Seven" - 4:17 (Cirillo)
- "Transeason" - 4:23 (Cirillo)
- "Rose Geranium" - 4:13 (Cirillo)
- "Getting Together" - 4:41
- "Body and Soul (Alternate Take 1)" - 3:07 On CD reissue
Personnel
- Charles Mingus - bass
- John LaPorta - clarinet (tracks 1, 2, 4, 9 and 10), alto saxophone (track 3)
- Teo Macero - tenor saxophone (tracks 2–10), baritone saxophone (track 1)
- George Barrow - tenor saxophone (track 1), baritone saxophone (tracks 2–4, 9 & 10)
- Wally Cirillo (tracks 5–8), Mal Waldron (tracks 2–4, 9 & 10) - piano
- Kenny Clarke (tracks 5–8), Rudy Nichols (tracks 1–4, 9 & 10) - drums
References
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albums
- The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus
- Jazz Composers Workshop
- Pithecanthropus Erectus
- The Clown
- East Coasting
- Mingus Three
- A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry
- Mingus Ah Um
- Blues & Roots
- Mingus Dynasty
- Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
- Pre-Bird
- Mingus
- Oh Yeah
- Tijuana Moods
- Money Jungle
- The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
- Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
- Tonight at Noon
- Mingus Plays Piano
- Blue Bird
- Pithycanthropus Erectus
- Let My Children Hear Music
- Mingus Moves
- Changes One
- Changes Two
- Three or Four Shades of Blues
- His Final Work
- Cumbia & Jazz Fusion
- Something Like a Bird
- Charles Mingus with Orchestra
- Reincarnation of a Lovebird
albums
- Mingus at the Bohemia (1956)
- Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959)
- The Complete Town Hall Concert (1962)
- The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1963)
- Astral Weeks (1964)
- Town Hall Concert (1964)
- Revenge! (1964)
- The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (1964)
- Mingus in Europe Volume I (1964)
- Mingus in Europe Volume II (1964)
- Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964)
- Mingus at Monterey (1964)
- My Favorite Quintet (1965)
- Music Written for Monterey 1965 (1965)
- Charles Mingus Sextet In Berlin (1970)
- Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972)
- Mingus at Antibes (1974)
- Mingus at Carnegie Hall (1974)
- Cornell 1964 (2007)
- Beneath the Underdog (1971 autobiography)
- Mingus Big Band
- Mingus Dynasty
- Sue Mingus
- Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)
- Weary Blues (1958)
- Newport Rebels (1960)
- Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1964)
- Mingus (1979)
- Epitaph (1990)
- Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968
- Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (1998 documentary)