Remembering British jazz great Tubby Hayes on his birthday

Raising a glass to saxophonist/flautist and vibes ace Tubby Hayes with the trailer for "A Man In A Hurry" and a few performances. 

Remembering Charles Mingus on his birthday

Raising a glass to jazz great Charles Mingus on his birthday with a few performances and documentaries worth checking. 

Charles Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts due for RSD release

Resonance's limited-edition 3LP set Mingus In Argentina is due for Record Store Day on April 12th. Watch a preview clip below.

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"Mingus In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts" is a never-before-released pair of recordings of legendary bassist Charles Mingus captured live in Buenos Aires, Argentina in June 1977 featuring Ricky Ford (tenor saxophone), Jack Walrath (trumpet), Robert Neloms (piano) and Dannie Richmond (drums). Transferred from the original tape reels that were recorded by engineer Carlos Melero, the limited-edition 180-gram 3-LP set is mastered for vinyl by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab and pressed at 33 1/3 RPM at Le Vinylist. The elaborate booklet includes liner notes by author and jazz historian Brian Priestley; plus interviews with Ricky Ford and Jack Walrath. This is an official release in cooperation with Jazz Workshop, Inc. and the Charles Mingus Estate. Watch the preview clip and a WCB Jazz Vinyl podcast review following the track listing below. 

Charles Mingus In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts

1. Introduction 

2. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 

3. Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love 

4. Noddin’ Ya Head Blues

5. Three or Four Shades of Blue

6. Koko/Cherokee

7. For Harry Carney

8. Cumbia & Jazz Fusion

9. Solo Piano Improvisation (Performed by Charles Mingus)

10. Sue's Changes (Incomplete)

11. Koko/Cherokee/Band Intros

12. Fables of Faubus

13. Solo Piano Improvisation (Performed by Charles Mingus)

Tracks 1-9 recorded on June 2, 1977 at the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Tracks 10-14 recorded on June 3, 1977 at the Teatro SHA (Sociedad Hebraica Argentina) in Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Remembering jazz piano great Hazel Scott on her birthday

Remembering Trinidad-born jazz pianist Hazel Scott with a short documentary by Eve Goldberg and some performance clips. 

Happy Birthday Roy Brooks!

Remembering Detroit percussion maestro Roy Brooks on his birthday with an interview/demo and some stellar performances.

Happy 100th Birthday Jaki Byard!

Remembering jazz piano great Jaki Byard with some 1965 footage and the short documentary film Anything For Jazz. 

Happy 100th Birthday Charles Mingus!

Remembering the late great Charles Mingus on his 100th birthday with performances from Stockholm in 1960 and Oslo in 1970. 

Happy Birthday Lou Blackburn

Remembering late trombone great Lou Blackburn with a couple of amazing recordings with his group Mombasa.  

Happy Birthday Johnny Coles!

Remembering trumpeter Johnny Coles with a 1964 performance in Norway alongside Eric Dolphy and Charles Mingus. 

Happy Birthday Charles Mingus

Here's an interview Neshui Ertegun conducted with Charles Mingus followed by a 1964 performance in Belgium with Eric Dolphy.

R.I.P. percussionist extraordinaire Emil Richards, 1932-2019

Sadly, Wrecking Crew session musician Emil Richards – who snapped his fingers on The Addams Family TV theme – has passed away. He'll be greatly missed. 

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Happy Birthday Charles Mingus!

Remembering the great bassist/composer on his day with some 1964 footage of the Charles Mingus Sextet in Sweden & Norway. 

That time Rahsaan Roland Kirk played "Haitian Fight Song" on the Ed Sullivan Show

Here's some "True Black Music" performed by Kirk & Mingus along with Archie Shepp, Roy Haynes, Dick Griffin and others in 1971. 

Rare Charles Mingus 1973 recording Jazz In Detroit out Friday

Check out a preview clip of Charles Mingus: Jazz In Detroit issued as 5 LP or 5 CD box set November 2 on BBE.

BBE Music in conjunction with 180 Proof Records have unearthed the long-lost intimate concert tapes from one of the greatest composers and bassists in the history of American Music, Charles Mingus.

Transmitted live by producer and broadcaster Robert “Bud” Spangler for WDET-FM radio, these rare recordings from reels discovered by DJ Amir Abdullah capture Mingus during his week-long residency at the intimate Strata Concert Gallery in Detroit, 1973. This hard-swinging set features the earliest known recording of “Noddin’ Ya Head Blues”, and a rare inclusion of “Dizzy Profile” -- a beautiful waltz never officially recorded by Mingus for studio release.

Following shortly after the release of Mingus’s orchestral masterpiece, Let My Children Hear Music, these recordings capture a lesser-known Mingus line-up including drummer Roy Brooks and trumpeter Joe Gardner (both Detroit natives), virtuoso pianist Don Pullen, and the innovative saxophonist John Stubblefield. Stubblefield was a recent recruit who performed for five months with the ensemble, leaving soon after this engagement. Later after Mingus’s death, Stubblefield went on to collaborate with Mingus’s widow, Sue Mingus, and became a key figure in the Mingus Dynasty and Mingus Big Band. This recording at Strata is the only known documentation of Mingus and Stubblefield on stage together.

The performance captured on these tapes is simply breathtaking: five masters of music channeling their greater spirits for an intimate, enraptured audience. It is a time-machine journey into a sensory experience of that February evening in 1973 Detroit; listeners glimpse a taste of the furious energy and compositional sophistication of this monumental modern creator and his jazz workshop.

Watch Charles Mingus, Don Cherry & Elvin Jones in Norway 1975

The 50-minute film (below) includes rare interview and performance footage from the 1975 Kongsberg Jazz Festival.

Happy Birthday Horace Parlan!

Whaddya mean you don't know Pietro Ciancaglini

Check out "Balarm" from Pietro Ciancaglini's 2009 Mingus salute Reincarnation Of A Lovebird. 

Charles Mingus smokin' in Belgium