Charles Mingus East Coasting © 1995 (?) ZYX-Music GmbH Bethlehem BET 6014-2 (Europe) Compact Disc

As for Mingus himself, he has been working through one of his most constructive periods in the past year or two. "I finally decided to be myself; it's so much simpler that way." Because he is so independently himself and is not annealed to any of the fashionable attitudes in contemporary jazz, he is sometimes put down by other musicians. "Some of them say I have no 'soul'. Maybe I have a different kind of soul. I don't want to act any parts, to worry myself about being hip. I'm only concerned with communicating what I feel."

Nat Hentoff (from liner notes)

Tracks

1. Memories Of You (4:23) (Blake)
2. East Coasting (5:10)
3. West Coast Ghost (10:29)
4. Celia (7:50)
5. Conversation (5:25)
6. Fifty-First Street Blues (5:45)

   All compositions by Charles Mingus unless otherwise noted

Personnel

• Clarence Shaw - trumpet
• Shafi Hadi aka Curtis Porter - alto sax, tenor sax
• Jimmy Knepper - trombone
• Bill Evans - piano
• Charles Mingus - bass
• Dannie Richmond - drums

Information

Date and location

August 1957, New York City

Total time

39:21 (6014-2)

Original issue (year)

Bethlehem BCP 6019 (1958)

Reissues (year, origin)

• International Polydor Production 623215 ("Charlie Mingus Sextet", pre-1969, LP)
• Affinity CD Charly 19 ("New York Sketchbook", 1986, unauthorized, CD)
• Black Bird (matrix: Tecval 01 Jazz 100-41 CD 54) ("East Coasting", CD, Spain?)
• Bethlehem 30022 (1995?, USA)

Liner notes

Nat Hentoff

Comments

Marketed and distributed in Europe by ZYX-Music. US issue (30022) includes alternate takes of 'East Coasting' and 'Memories Of You'.

See also

• New Tijuana Moods
• A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry