Live At The Village Vanguard, by The Mingus Dynasty Group

Live At The Village Vanguard

by The Mingus Dynasty Group

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1.	Peggy's Blue Skylight 01:29	buy track
2.	My Jelly Roll Soul 04:53	buy track
3.	The Man Who Never Sleeps 11:44	buy track
4.	Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love 13:19	buy track
5.	Better Get Hit In Your Soul 11:31	buy track
6.	Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 02:10	buy track

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The Mingus Dynasty group, was the first attempt at a new concept that of a floating pool of former Mingus sidemen (or in the case of his own instrument, the few acoustic bassists he was known to admire, such as Eddie Gomez and Charlie Haden). To be sure, there had been organisations from the big-band era whose lifespan was longer than that of their leader, and who continued playing the fixed arrangements and trading on the names of, for instance, Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey.

But asking a small group of five, six or seven musicians, even those who had worked for him, to create Mingus music without him at the helm was something else. So much of the spirit of his work, as originally performed, derived not only from his volatile personality but from the way he forced his players to realise their own potential as much as that of his compositions. The musical succes of Mingus Dynasty's live appearances and its four albums is therefore a singular tribute to the participants concerned - and, incidentally, to the vision of Susan Graham Mingus who first organised the group shortly after the husband's death in 1979.

There was only one Charles Mingus, however, and the efforts of the performers are stimulated and focused both by their memoires of the man himself and by the inherent qualities of his material.

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released October 20, 1990

Randy Brecker - trumpet
George Adams - tenor saxophone
Roland Hanna - piano
Richard Davis - bass
Kenny Washington - drums

Recorded May 27th, 1984

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