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Clifford Jordan solos first.

I stumbled across the website below of a musician named Henry Robinett, who if you scroll down a bit, has some interesting reminiscences of spending time with Mingus towards the end of his life. Bio - Henry Robinett The only discouraging thing for me during this period was listening to the gorgeous music Charles had written for her, which he called Joni 1, 2, 3, etc. He’d have various pianists come by and play this written music, which was thoroughly notated. This alone was amazing enough as he had a pretty well advanced form of Lou Gehrigs Disease, or ALS. He no longer had the use of his limbs, so he had to dictate the music, which he’d do by calling out the notes to a transcriber, mainly Paul Jeffrey, but sometimes also Sy Johnson or his long time trombonist Jimmy Knepper. I suspect I was being groomed for that task. Then he’d have Armen Donelian, or on one occasion, Phineas Newborn Jr, play through them. And I had already considered Phineas was one of the greatest pianist of all time. What a thrill to sit there, just a few feet away from Phineas as he played songs and talked to MIngus about the old days! This was a very heady time for me, indeed. But the music Charles wrote for Joni was so achingly beautiful, as it was played on solo piano. By the time Herbie and Jaco and Erskine and Wayne Shorter got to it, the music had been so transformed, it was barely recognizable. I was just bitterly disappointed. Nothing against those brilliant musicians, heroes of mine all, or Joni. Somewhere I understand there’s an alternative recording with people Mingus wanted to have play. I can only hope it’s released someday, but I doubt it.

So that means the tapes are in Sue's closet?

I wonder if additional recordings of this appearance of Mingus at the Jazz Workshop still exist?

Great version of Fables on that LP.

Billy Harper, Live on Tour in the Far East, volume 3 (Steeplechasse)

Different point of view here: the version of Orange... on Changes is the best version.

Kyle Roussel, Rookie of the Year

I find Mingus Moves to be a very compelling, if flawed, album. One of those albums that, when I bought it in 1974, playing the first side, it was immediately gripping and it was clear this was what I was looking for in music. A brilliant if imperfect (compared to Changes) album, in my opinion.

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Three times, all with Thomas Chapin. The first tine, with Thomas Chapin and Michael Sarin, very late at night in a small club in Vancouver, was surely one of the greatest sets of live music I've ever heard. The other two times were at the Knitting Factory.

Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden, Alone Together (Blue Note)

Dave Burrell, Lush Life (Denon) Willie Thomas and Bunky Green, For Love Again (Mark)

Good one.

I guess so. It is May 16. I have been cloistered too long.

On the evening of Wednesday, May 12, the Wild Detectives backyard in Oak Cliff’s Bishop Arts District will set the stage for a tour of Global Soundscapes, as Sangeet Millennium and Chasquis present a concert featuring the Jamal Mohamed Trio and Sangeet Millennium Ensemble. The two ensembles will perform traditional and original musical spanning the Arab World, the Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia. Doors open at 7:00 pm; music starts at 7:30. This event, the first of four in South Asian and Global Performance Series, is supported in part by an Arts Activate grant from the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture. Sangeet Millennium Ensemble: Amie Maciszewski – sitar, vocals; Paul Klemperer – saxophone; Paarth Kuntawala – tabla Jamal Mohamed Trio: Jamal Mohamed – doumbek, riq, various percussion; guitar – Buddy Mohmed; Jonathan Jones – clarinet, shawms.

Half of it is a great album. The guest "vocalists" on the other half, I mostly don't care for (the music is still good though).

Earl Hines, Solo Walk in Tokyo (Denon)

Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse)

T. P. Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo de Cotonou Benin, No. 4 Coleman Hawkins All Stars (Prestige Swingville) Eric Schneider and Earl Hines, Eric and Earl (Gatemouth) MIquel Aceves Mejia, Bajo el Cielo de Mexico (RCA)

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Yes, except the Jazz Record Mart was also the home base for Delmark Records.

Sounds great.

To my recollection, I saw Curtis Fuller twice, once in his later years in a Fort Worth club, which was just okay, and more thrillingly, with the Timeless All Stars in New Orleans in 1987 (also the only time I got to see Harold Land in person).

Kenny Barron and Mulgrew Miller, The Art of Piano Duo Live (Sunnyside)