• Source: The Complete Town Hall Concert

      • The Complete Town Hall Concert is a live album by the American jazz musician Charles Mingus released on Blue Note label 1994. It was recorded at the Town Hall in New York City in 1962. Some tracks were previously released on the United Artists label in 1962 as Town Hall Concert.
      The concert was conceived as a "live workshop" of newly composed music which would be recorded for release by United Artists but rescheduling, lack of rehearsal time, poor sound and interruptions led to the event and subsequent album being considered a disaster. Much of the music intended for the performance was finally realized by conductor Gunther Schuller in a concert in 1989 as Epitaph.


      Reception


      The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "Charles Mingus's Town Hall Concert has long been considered a famous fiasco, and the original United Artists LP (which contained just 36 minutes of music and did not bother identifying the personnel) made matters worse. But this 1994 Blue Note CD does its best to clean up the mess."
      The English rock band Radiohead cited The Complete Town Hall Concert as a major influence on their 2000 album Kid A. The songwriter, Thom Yorke, described it as "just fucking chaos ... There's this incredible tension and it was the most formative record of the whole time."


      Track listing


      All compositions by Charles Mingus except as indicated

      "Freedom Part 1" - 3:47
      "Freedom Part 2" - 3:14
      "Osmotin'" - 2:50 Bonus track on CD reissue
      "Epitaph Part 1" - 7:03
      "Peggy's Blue Skylight" - 5:21 Bonus track on CD reissue
      "Epitaph Part 2" - 5:10
      "My Search" - 8:09
      "Portrait" - 4:34 Bonus track on CD reissue
      "Duke's Choice" - 5:12
      "Please Don't Come Back from the Moon" - 7:24 Bonus track on CD reissue
      "In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) - 8:21
      "Epitaph Part 1" [alternate take] - 7:23 Bonus track on CD reissue


      Personnel


      Charles Mingus - bass, narration
      Ed Armour, Rolf Ericson, Lonnie Hillyer, Ernie Royal, Clark Terry, Richard Williams, Snooky Young - trumpet
      Eddie Bert, Jimmy Cleveland, Willie Dennis, Paul Faulise, Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman - trombone
      Romeo Penque - oboe
      Danny Bank - bass clarinet
      Buddy Collette, Eric Dolphy, Charlie Mariano, Charles McPherson - alto saxophone
      George Berg, Zoot Sims - tenor saxophone
      Pepper Adams, Jerome Richardson - baritone saxophone
      Warren Smith - vibraphone, percussion
      Toshiko Akiyoshi, Jaki Byard – piano
      Les Spann - guitar
      Milt Hinton - bass
      Dannie Richmond - drums
      Grady Tate - percussion
      Bob Hammer, Gene Roland - arranger
      Melba Liston - arranger, conductor


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