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Discovery Records
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• The complete original album ‘East Coasting’ (Bethlehem), featuring an all-star group with Jimmy Knepper, Bill Evans, Clarence Shaw and Curtis Porter, plus all existing alternate takes from the recording date.
• As bonus tracks, this issue contains Mingus' superb “Revelations” - recorded a couple of months earlier at the Brandeis Jazz Festival - this being the only other collaboration that Mingus and Evans ever made - plus two long standards from the October 1957 session by Mingus' Jazz Workshop (his own compositions from that date have been added as a bonus to Tijuana Moods on EJC 55438).
• ‘East Coasting, comes after such Mingus classics as ‘Pithecanthropus Erectus’, ‘The Clown’, and ‘Tijuana Moods’. Whereas, Evans was still at the beginning of his career, having only recorded his ‘New Jazz Conceptions’ debut. The following year he would begin working with Miles Davis.
• Personnel : Charles Mingus, bass, arranger & leader; Bill Evans, piano; Clarence Shaw, trumpet; Jimmy Knepper, trombone; Shafi Hadi [Curtis Porter], alto sax; Dannie Richmond, drums - New York, August 1957. Musicians on bonus tracks include : Art Farmer, Hal McKusick (as), Teo Macero (bar), Teddy Charles (vib), Barry Galbraith (g), Horace Parlan (p), and Gunther Schuller & George Russell (arr, cond). New York, June 18, 1957. Total Time: 79:30 - 11 tracks - Includes 16-page booklet
• “If jazz is to progress, musicians like Mingus must lead it. And Knepper and Evans are perfect companions for Mingus in the venture. As thought-provoking, often exciting jazz, this LP is recommended.” - Don Gold, Down Beat (‘East Coasting’ review) |
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Track Listing for East Coasting + bonus tracks
01 Memories Of You 4:26
02 East Coasting 5:13
03 West Coast Ghost 10:28
04 Celia 7:54
05 Conversation 5:28
06 Fifty-First Blues 5:48
07 East Coasting [Alternate Take] 5:30
08 Memories Of You [Alternate Take] 4:40
09 Revelations 12:05
10 Woody’n You 8:44
11 Billie’s Bounce 9:08
Total Time: 79:30
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Reviews |
| Jazzwise - Roy Carr |
| From a deliberately slow opening 'Memories of You' through to 'West Coast Ghost' and 'Fifty First Blues' there's an almost noirish cinematic quality to many of these performances. |
| Jazz Journal - Bob Weir |
| This example of prime Mingus fits neatly alongside the same label's Tijuana Moods CD. |
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Discovery catalogue available for
Charles Mingus / Bill Evans
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East Coasting + bonus tracks
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