Mingus Big Band - The Charles Mingus Centennial Sessions Vol. 2 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The flagship repertory ensemble Mingus Big Band celebrated the 100th anniversary of Mingus’ birth with The Charles Mingus Centennial Sessions, its highest quality studio recording to date. Highlights include twenty-two compositions and new arrangements, vocals and narrations by Charles’ son Eric Mingus, and thirty-four first-class musicians, rotating in Mingus Big Band tradition.

April 22, 2022, marked the 100th anniversary of Charles Mingus’ birth and Mingus fans worldwide honored his influence on the evolution of music, his incomparable life, extraordinary trailblazing career, and vital activism.

Mingus Big Band kicked off celebrations in January 2020 with The Charles Mingus Centennial Sessions. Over several days at Sound on Sound Studios in Montclair, New Jersey, the world-renowned Mingus repertory ensemble made one of their highest quality recordings to date, featuring twenty-two compositions and never-before-recorded arrangements. Engineer Rich Keller spearheaded the recording, with sessions directed by co-leaders Alex Foster and Boris Kozlov, the latter playing Mingus’s legendary 1927 Ernst Heinrich Roth double bass.

Highlights include vocals and narrations by Charles’ son Eric Mingus and a rotating lineup of first-class musicians in Mingus Big Band tradition, enabling the recordings to feature thirty-four musicians. Nine Mingus compositions were carefully selected for this first volume.

TRACKLIST

1. Mingus Big Band - Peggy's Blue Skylight
2. Mingus Big Band - New York Sketchbook
3. Mingus Big Band - Song for Keki
4. Mingus Big Band - GG Train
5. Mingus Big Band - Farewell Farwell
6. Mingus Big Band - Pithecanthropus Erectus
7. Mingus Big Band - She's Just Miss Popular Hybrid
8. Mingus Big Band - The Clown



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