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Length
  
87:23

Artist
  
Charles Mingus

Label
  
Sunnyside Records

Producer
  
Charles Mingus

Release date
  
1965

Genre
  
Jazz


Released
  
1965 2006 CD reissue with bonus tracks

Recorded
  
September 25, 1965 Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles

Music Written for Monterey 1965 (1965)
  
Charles Mingus in Paris The Complete America Session (1970)

Similar
  
Mingus at Monterey, My Favorite Quintet, Charles Mingus in Paris: Th, Revenge!, Right Now: Live at the Jazz Wor

Music Written for Monterey 1965 (subtitled Not Heard... Played in its Entirety, at UCLA) is a live album by American bassist, composer and bandleader Charles Mingus recorded at Royce Hall in Los Angeles and first released on Mingus' own Jazz Workshop label in 1966. The album was rereleased by Sue Mingus on the Sunnyside label in 2006.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Jeff Tamarkin awarded the album 3½ stars and stated, "as an adjunct to Mingus' lengthy discography, it's a fascinating and sometimes brilliant entry". Samuel Chell from All About Jazz stated "this recording of the enigmatic, volatile composer's UCLA performance could be regarded as an indispensable "document," filling in another piece of the puzzle that was Charles Mingus while providing privileged insights into the creative process as well as the private, elusive domain known as the "self."

Track listing

All compositions by Charles Mingus except as indicated

Disc One:

  1. Opening Speech - 0:42
  2. "Meditation on Inner Peace Part I" - 17:57
  3. Speech Introducing Musicians - 1:41
  4. "Meditation on Inner Peace Part II" - 0:51
  5. Speech - 0:15
  6. "Once Upon a Time There Was a Holding Corporation Called Old America" - 0:08
  7. Lecture to Band - 0:27
  8. "Once Upon a Time, There Was a Holding Corporation Called Old America" - 1:22
  9. "Ode to Bird and Dizzy" [aka "Bird Preamble"] (Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Denzil Best, Fats Navarro, Max Roach, Oscar Pettiford, Tadd Dameron, Lonnie Hillyer, Charles McPherson, Danny Richmond) - 10:18
  10. Speech: Call Octet Back - 0:54
  11. "They Trespass the Land of Sacred Sioux" - 7:11

Disc Two:

  1. Speech: Introduction to Hobart Dotson/"The Arts of Tatum and Freddy Webster" - 10:01
  2. Speech - 1:24
  3. "Once Upon a Time, There Was a Holding Corporation Called Old America" - 11:01
  4. Speech: Introduction to Lonnie Hillyer - 0:35
  5. "Twelfth Street Rag" (misidentified on album as Muskrat Ramble (Kid Ory, Ray Gilbert)- 3:11
  6. Pause - 0:11
  7. "Don't Be Afraid, The Clown's Afraid Too" - 8:21
  8. "Don't Let It Happen Here" - 10:53

Personnel

  • Charles Mingus - bass, piano, narration
  • Hobart Dotson, Lonnie Hillyer - trumpet
  • Jimmy Owens - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Julius Watkins - French horn
  • Howard Johnson - tuba
  • Charles McPherson - alto saxophone
  • Dannie Richmond - drums

    • Songs

    [opening speech]0:42
    Meditation on Inner Piece0:42
    [speech introducing musicians]17:57

    References

    Music Written for Monterey 1965 Wikipedia
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