[TPIN] Good or bad,..here it is

[Bart]

Hey Jon and crew,

Check out a later Mingus album - Live at Carnegie Hall.  There's only one tune on each of the sides - C Jam Blues and then Perdido.  It's a live jam session more or less.  The whole record is a gas and Rahsaan Roland Kirk steals the show on both sides.  Check out Perdido.  The best part of this record is the total mix of styles of the soloists.  A young Jon Faddis plays (very, very much in a Dizzy mold - complete licks and choruses intact), Charles McPherson's alto is beautiful and very Bird oriented.  Tenor man George Adams plays R&B meets avant-garde - beautiful.  Don Pullen plays some classic Don Pullen piano solos.  The foot-stomper is Kirk who plays the whole history of the saxophone - Hawkins through Coltrane and beyond.  These guys all turn Perdido inside out.  They own it and play themselves.  I guess that's the goal.  This one track is a real lesson on what can be done with changes.  It makes me smile and laugh out loud whenever I listen to this record.  What a joy.

Peace,

Bart - Philly Trumpet Player



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