Pre-Bird
Pre-Bird | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Studio album by Charles Mingus | ||||
Released | September 1961[1][2] | |||
Recorded | May 24–25, 1960 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 35:20 | |||
Label | Mercury (1961) Limelight (1965, as Mingus Revisited) | |||
Producer | Leonard Feather | |||
Charles Mingus chronology | ||||
|
Review scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [4] |
Pre-Bird (later re-released as Mingus Revisited) is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus consisting of music that was composed before Mingus first heard Charlie Parker, hence the title Pre-Bird. It was released on Mercury Records in September 1961.[1][2]
The music is scored for various sized large jazz ensembles and features many soloists prominent at the time of recording. The album includes two tracks which are contrapuntal arrangements of two swing era pieces, whereby "Take the "A" Train" (left channel) is paired with a simultaneous "Exactly Like You" (right channel), and likewise "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" with "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart". Tracks 1 to 3, 5 and 6 recorded May 25, 1960 probably at Plaza Sound, New York City; tracks 4, 7 and 8 recorded May 24, 1960 at Plaza Sound, New York City.[5]
Track listing
- "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) / "Exactly Like You" (Jimmy McHugh/Dorothy Fields) – 3:40
- "Prayer For Passive Resistance" – 3:57
- "Eclipse" – 4:01
- "Mingus Fingus No. 2" – 3:39
- "Weird Nightmare" - 3:42
- "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" (Duke Ellington/Bob Russell) / "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" (Duke Ellington/Irving Mills/Henry Nemo/John Redmond) - 3:41
- "Bemoanable Lady" - 4:30
- "Half-Mast Inhibition" - 8:14
All compositions by Charles Mingus, except where indicated
Personnel
- Max Roach - drums
- Gunther Schuller - conductor
- Marcus Belgrave - trumpet
- Ted Curson - trumpet
- Clark Terry - trumpet
- Hobart Dotson - trumpet
- Richard Williams - trumpet
- Robert Di Domenica - flute
- Harry Shulman - oboe
- Eric Dolphy - alto saxophone, flute
- Booker Ervin - saxophone
- Yusuf Lateef - saxophone, flute
- John LaPorta - saxophone
- Danny Bank - saxophone
- Bill Barron - saxophone
- Joe Farrell - saxophone
- Eddie Bert - trombone
- Slide Hampton - trombone
- Jimmy Knepper - trombone
- Charles "Majeed" Greenlee - trombone
- Paul Bley - piano
- Roland Hanna - piano
- Charles Mingus – bass
- George Scott - drums
- Dannie Richmond - drums
- Sticks Evans - drums
- Lorraine Cusson - vocals
References
- ^ a b "New LP Releases". Billboard Music Week. The Billboard Publishing Co. 11 Sep 1961. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ^ a b "September Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. 16 Sep 1961. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1002. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 140. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ "Charles Mingus – Mingus Revisited (CD)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- v
- t
- e
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)
This 1960s jazz album-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e