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Very heavily edited, actually. Or spliced together, depending on how you want to look at it. Not "editing" as in shortening, but putting sections together so they worked once assembled. Sort of a pre-cursor to Miles/Teo in that regard. But geez, look at Massey Hall, bass overdubbed non-stop. There's other examples in the Debut era as well. Mingus was not one to reject recording technology as a "compositional tool", ever, not that I can tell.

Mingus was a very proactive recordist.

In terms of the songs themselves, what of it I've heard has been a bit above Murray Wilson, but not exponentially so.

That needs to happen. Prez w/Basie in 1944, live, what bit I've heard of it has been some of the best Prez ever. Ever.

Nope. Candid was part of Cadence. Nat Hentoff was A&R. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candid_Records

We gotta be talking about mid-late 80s at the earliest, right?

Jackie Martling?

Musicians Louis Hayes - Drums Richard Germanson - Piano Dezron Douglas - Bass Vincent Herring - Saxophone Alison Ostrander - Violin Jeremy Pelt - Trumpet Adi Yeshaya - Conductor, String Orchestration Jill Olson Moser - Violin Susan Janda - Viola Rebecca Arons - Cello Production Sharon L. Nelson - Producer Co-Producer - Charles F. Spicer Jr. Executive Producer - L. Londell McMillan Engineer - Jason Miller Engineer - Try Bishop Mastering - Greg Reierson Recorded at Paisley Park The story of how all the lead sheets just happened to fall out of a cabinet one day, presented at face value: https://ropeadope.com/jln

I'd be interested as a document, not sure if I'd enjoy it or not. I do remember a Cadence interview with him from I guess about the same time. He talked about enrolling in some jazz-ed program at some college, and nobody knew who he was, had never heard the name and just figured he was some old guy trying to learn how to play. He was kinda dismissed out of hand, and he thought that was pretty funny.

I'm embarrassed to admit being ignorant of that Alan Eager album until today.

You're waaaaaayyyy more optimistic abut that than I have been for, like, the last 5 or so years, whenever Cuscuna started backing more and more out of driving projects.

Just meant that they began life with non-archival releases, and a good number of them. https://www.discogs.com/label/162238-Uptown-Records-2

And also the guy who "started" Candid.

Archie Bleyer.

Uptown was more than just archival...a lot of work there. RIP.

Disappointed thaat they overlooked the links and the tack, but oh well, kids. You know you have too many airline Miles when you subscribe to GQ jsut because it's the best of what's left. But last month, Quincy Jones, this year, this. However, unless and until Roscoe, it's one and done. There's not a shot of Charles Mingus dressed in black where he looks anything lest than proud.

aka Door To Door Maniac. Johnny Cash as a Jersey hood/sociopathic killer/sadist/rapist for hire, Ronnie Howard as the kid who comes home from school for lunch and catches his freshly terrorized mom in a negligee and doesn't freak out, Merle Travis as both visible actor and dubbed in guitarist, Midge Ware as temporary hotness who Cash just randomly decides to shoot in their hotel room, and Vic Tayback, with hair. We've all heard stories about how wild Johnny Cash could get when his sobriety was on vacation. If he brought any of his dark side to this film, uh....that get a little disturbing in a big hurry then. "I like a messy bed", he says.

That was Mingus' cat, Nightlife! http://mingusmingusmingus.com/mingus/cat-traning-program Used to be more of a cat person, but my wife is allergic. So we've always had dogs. Right now, I think I might prefer no pets, to be honest, but we have a rescue dog who's about a year old now. Smart as a whip, but not exactly the calmest person in the room.

And before that, there was this.