When I hear Charlie Mingus feel something has to be transported to a world of unimaginable and wonderful sounds. Charlie is an outstanding musician, his history in the jazz world is special and unique. A transformer and highly competent musician.
Sitting at this concert would be like a university lecture. In the best way. These boys will take you to school man. You don't learn how to play like that from no text book. Just amazing.
This is a great performance by some real :kick-ass" players of that era. I have always admired and loved the music of Mingus and can't understand why his name is spoken in the same sentence as some of the other greats from the era like Coltrane, Miles, Monk , Dizzy and Bird. He was an American treasure. Thanks for posting this performance.
I was very fortunate to see Mingus when I was 16, in 1973, at the Joyous Lake, a very small club, in the heart of Woodstock New York. My best friend's older brother worked there, and got us in to some great shows, but this was the very best. He was playing with some guys from Peru, and it was at the beginning of his exploration into cumbia and jazz fusion, of which he put an album out a few years later. They also seem to be enjoying one of Peru's main exports. I'll leave it at that.
Whenever I hear Mingus, or somebody interpreting his music as it deserves, I am MOVED! It achieves as much greatness and beauty as any music can lay claim to. A civilized society would consider someone like Mingus to be a national treasure which means that the society Mingus lived in was clearly uncivilized.
caught mingus live in the d in a very intimate setting he played piano and bass at the session with his trio unforgettable musical night about 60 people there might as well been at his house
Charles Mingus and Coltrane are the only musicians who could "touch" your soul with their music,,,,,,, regardless of what song they were playing........ They could play Mary Had A Little Lamb and still caress your soul with their interpretation.
Beautiful version of the classic. Mingus's bass playing is masterful (especially considering that he'd have to stop playing shortly after this). Benny Bailey's solo is one of dreamiest I've heard in jazz. A masterpiece. Lester would be proud!
I took me sometime to understand and like Don Pullen's playing. But then... he got to be one of my piano heroes. Now, about Mingus -- I think, IMHO, that he is one of the greatest jazz composers of the XX century. His music clears my mind of everithing else, but the world that he creates with notes and rests. Danny Richmond was THE drummer who understood Mingus dynamics so well. No wonder that they remaining together for so many years, and that Mingus Dinasty was co-founded by him. Now, about this song -- I flipped out the first time I heard it; and I flipped out again when I heard Jeff Beck playing it out of nowhere...
+Ricardo Moraes-Pinto John McLaughlin does a great solo version of this on acoustic guitar that may flip you out a third time. It's still on UA-cam, I think. Here's the URL watch?v=zJB65Ya9p0M
+Evgeniy NeutralMusician Thanks, man! Mingus has written one of the most powerful bios I have ever read -- "Beneath the Underdog". I also recommend the movie "Mingus: Charles Mingus 1968" a deep nd sad docummentary.
Ricardo Moraes-Pinto Agreed. Thank you for recommendation. I like oldschool stuff and prefer it in comparing to modern shit. I will definately check it later, I mean "Mingus: Charles Mingus 1968". Especially if it's serious, deep and sad. That's the stuff I really like, if not to say love. My gratitude.
A long "yeah mannnnnn", with finger snaps on this video. A supremely heartfelt thanks for the post. Mingus was the man. Ther are many excellent players, but you always have an affinity toward your first love, and I've always loved his style.
This tribute to Lester (Prez) can bring a tear to my eye - great performance by Charlie and the band! I found the impact of Lester Young's aesthetic vision (as opposed to his behavior) almost everywhere. He influenced the West Coast movement of the 1950s and Tristano and Konitz of the East Coast cool school. The influence of Prez t was assimilated by Brazilian music around the time of his death in 1959, and helped shape the bossa nova style (listen to Jobim and Getz). Masterful Work!
Small wonder that Ellington was an idol-hero to Mingus. It was Duke who fathered the first important, virtuoso bass player in jazz, Jimmy Blanton, who died at the age of 23. But Duke instantly captured Blanton's unique, unprecedented talent by writing compositions for the band that featured the bass (not simply "open" choruses but complex arrangements in which Blanton would have a two-measure break and be the lead melody instrument in the ensemble: "Jack the Bear," "Ko-Ko," "Harlem Airshaft." Despite Duke's and Mingus's mutual admiration, Mingus was one of the very few musicians the non-contentious maestro ever fired from his band (the only other who comes to mind was Juan Tizol, and that occurred only because Tizol forced Duke to play his hand: "It's him (Cat Anderson) or me." Duke had no choice (had he fired with Cat, he would have looked like he was a servant to the wishes of any band member). Mingus was one of a mighty trio of bass players who emerged in jazz, practically simultaneously, on the heels of Blanton. The other 2? Ray Brown and Oscar Pettiford. P.S. It's a shame how seldom great musicians, even today, have the opportunity to perform before a movie camera. We can have cable TV with up to 2000 channels, with 20 or more devoted to music. Yet jazz (make that "instrumental music") is considered commercial suicide: if it is, blame the deaf ears of the public, not the instrumentalist who has labored for countless hours. Charlie Parker is filmed on a single 2-minute snippet ("Hot House") with Diz. I'd give anything to have a 2-3 minute movie of Hank Mobley. As far as channel choices, how often to you see the category: "The Great American Songbook." Yet that library has had such an integral, symbiotic relationship with jazz that it's impossible to think of one without the other. (Coltrane was indebted to Rodgers and Hart for "Giant Steps" and to Rodgers and Hammerstein for "My Favorite Things." A television series devoted to this unique, indigenous form of music composition--the American Popular Song--could dwell on a single composer per week. It would beginning with ragtime, Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton. The 2nd week would be Irving Berlin.
Thanks for this one. Some superb musos performing a classic number. Despite a 40 year interest in jazz, I was not aware of either Don Pullen, or Benny Bailey. Totally fine playing.
Jazz Is truly an amazing American art form heavenly influenced by the struggle African Americans with great contributions from both afro & western euro influences. It is Americas Classical Music. Being somewhat of a jazz historian I found dog61's comment very hard to swallow.
Wow! This is the first time that I have heard any other version of this song, other than Beck's, and it was incredible! The horn playing blew my mind! How appropriate that it was Mingus live! Charlie Mingus is another artist that I will have to get to know.
Benny Baily, used to be Freddie Hubbards teacher, He used to pop into the Basement Bar in Mannheim, Germany in 1961 and jam with us youngsters from Munich, Joe Viera, Joe Haider and me. Ha!!
This is incredible. Mingus has such an aggressive sound in this performance. It's harsh but beautiful at the same time. I wish I had been old enough to have seen this performance. i would have been 2 when this show happened.
I love those little bass fills that charlie plays after every modulation. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat is, in my opinion, one of the most meaningful blues and jazz standards, because it was jammed after mingus' band heard, that Lester Young died. Also think the line up is just amazing...
@bruys I couldn't have said that any better. I love this stuff, classical rock, all kinds of metal, blues, reggae, jpop, jrock, and classical. Too bad you can't find good music on the radio except if it's public. But it just separates the real music fans from the people that just follow the radio's trends.
This vid is phenominal to say the least Thanks for the post But as much as I love Mingus I think my favorite rendition of Porkpie is on Jeff Becks Wired album Great feeling in every note There is also a good version on youtube by John Maclaughlin and Jonas Helborg. I saw them do it LIVE at a very small venue in Ft Worth with Trilok Gurtu on percussion. An amazing night. Got to meet them all, drank a few beers, got their autographs etc. That's been 25 yrs and I still regard it as one of the best
I didn't know Mulligan played with Mingus. Mingus is my heroe, and played with all my other heroes. It's incredible how he influenced other players as well as he influences future musiciens.
Has to be one of the best trumpet solos I've ever heard. It sounds like the blues apocalypse. It's perfectly paced. And, of course, Mingus ain't too bad either.
Amen to that. Greatest jazzman of the 2nd half of the 20th century - I include Ellington, Armstrong, Dizzy and Bird in the first half. But Mingus exceeds them all in some ways because of his compositions and complete mastery and profound understanding of jazz. He was steeped in European classical tradtion but knew how to use it all to create incredible JAZZ - always leaving room for individual expression.
There´s nothing like that Mingus solos. Im about to eat on the floor in my house and light patchouli with this. No words to explain the deepest emotions...
I'm so glad to know this song and to find this particular version. Oh, and reading all the comments i come to think that i'm also so glad to be brazilian and mixed. How much different does it make if you're black or white? Be glad to have ears people.
one of my favorite books i try to read it at least once year. awesome book, great read, super autobiography, "hey mingus can you put your soul down onto 200 pages of paper in text form?" "aright"
ok. I love lots of music, quite independent of style and time but if i had to choose my absolute favourite: It would be the wonder of sound of this (blown away)
@technothanks The fact that people all over the world love and perform "jazz" is only testament to the Afro American genius in this regard. People all over the world play Reggae. Is it thereby less Jamaican? Is "Salsa" less Caribbean because Norwegians perform the style? Music is certainly a regional phenomenon, born of the expressions of distinct ethnic groups, each with their own forms of group expression. That is the beauty of music, and the reason why we have distinct forms of it.
![Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Live At Montreux (1975) [9-12]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xPWvA1EiezI/mqdefault.jpg)
MulligAn Thanks very incredible
When I hear Charlie Mingus feel something has to be transported to a world of unimaginable and wonderful sounds. Charlie is an outstanding musician, his history in the jazz world is special and unique. A transformer and highly competent musician.
Thankfully someone was smart to film these GIANTS. Their music will live forever.
Sitting at this concert would be like a university lecture. In the best way. These boys will take you to school man. You don't learn how to play like that from no text book. Just amazing.
This is a great performance by some real :kick-ass" players of that era. I have always admired and loved the music of Mingus and can't understand why his name is spoken in the same sentence as some of the other greats from the era like Coltrane, Miles, Monk , Dizzy and Bird. He was an American treasure. Thanks for posting this performance.
I was very fortunate to see Mingus when I was 16, in 1973, at the Joyous Lake, a very small club, in the heart of Woodstock New York.
My best friend's older brother worked there, and got us in to some great shows, but this was the very best.
He was playing with some guys from Peru, and it was at the beginning of his exploration into cumbia and jazz fusion, of which he put an album out a few years later.
They also seem to be enjoying one of Peru's main exports.
I'll leave it at that.
the expression of the sax man at 4 21 , priclesss
thks por posting this man , one of my favorites songsss
What a bonus to have Mulligan in the group, one who understands chords in function and color,
simply beautiful.
Benny Bailey is sooo damned good. He should really be a household name...just stellar.
Whenever I hear Mingus, or somebody interpreting his music as it deserves, I am MOVED! It achieves as much greatness and beauty as any music can lay claim to.
A civilized society would consider someone like Mingus to be a national treasure which means that the society Mingus lived in was clearly uncivilized.
caught mingus live in the d in a very intimate setting he played piano and bass at the session with his trio unforgettable musical night about 60 people there might as well been at his house
Charles Mingus and Coltrane are the only musicians who could "touch" your soul with their music,,,,,,, regardless of what song they were playing........ They could play Mary Had A Little Lamb and still caress your soul with their interpretation.
I canNOT get enough Benny Bailey.
Beautiful version of the classic. Mingus's bass playing is masterful (especially considering that he'd have to stop playing shortly after this). Benny Bailey's solo is one of dreamiest I've heard in jazz. A masterpiece. Lester would be proud!
this is the greatest music ever black music the foundation of american music why cant they ever give credit where its due
Jazz is like medicine to the soul.
Mingus among us.
Better Git it in your soul, man .git it in your soul...I also love Mingus Moves.
I love the way they all come on to play the head half way through and then Mingus decides to take a solo so they all scurry off again!
I took me sometime to understand and like Don Pullen's playing. But then... he got to be one of my piano heroes. Now, about Mingus -- I think, IMHO, that he is one of the greatest jazz composers of the XX century. His music clears my mind of everithing else, but the world that he creates with notes and rests. Danny Richmond was THE drummer who understood Mingus dynamics so well. No wonder that they remaining together for so many years, and that Mingus Dinasty was co-founded by him. Now, about this song -- I flipped out the first time I heard it; and I flipped out again when I heard Jeff Beck playing it out of nowhere...
+Ricardo Moraes-Pinto John McLaughlin does a great solo version of this on acoustic guitar that may flip you out a third time. It's still on UA-cam, I think.
Here's the URL watch?v=zJB65Ya9p0M
+Ricardo Moraes-Pinto Well said, mate, well said. Hard to say better.
+Evgeniy NeutralMusician Thanks, man! Mingus has written one of the most powerful bios I have ever read -- "Beneath the Underdog". I also recommend the movie "Mingus: Charles Mingus 1968" a deep nd sad docummentary.
Ricardo Moraes-Pinto Agreed. Thank you for recommendation. I like oldschool stuff and prefer it in comparing to modern shit. I will definately check it later, I mean "Mingus: Charles Mingus 1968". Especially if it's serious, deep and sad. That's the stuff I really like, if not to say love. My gratitude.
I¨d like to recommend John McLaughlin¸¨s rendition of this beautiful tune on his solo album from 1970 named "My goals beyond" Amazing!
the wonderful George Adams with the smile! thank you, man.
Mingus...I feel lucky to have seen him in a small bar concert in Montreal years ago...
Thanks for this video
RC
i dont understand how those 11 people doesn´t like Charles Mingus¡¡¡
i love it¡¡¡
I think I caught this concert on TV a year ago, but I didn't know enough about Mingus at the time to fully appreciate it.
The album "Black Saint And the Sinner Lady" features many piano solos played by Mingus.
A long "yeah mannnnnn", with finger snaps on this video.
A supremely heartfelt thanks for the post.
Mingus was the man. Ther are many excellent players, but you always have an affinity toward your first love, and I've always loved his style.
Wow this is beautiful music. This is ART.
This tribute to Lester (Prez) can bring a tear to my eye - great performance by Charlie and the band! I found the impact of Lester Young's aesthetic vision (as opposed to his behavior) almost everywhere. He influenced the West Coast movement of the 1950s and Tristano and Konitz of the East Coast cool school. The influence of Prez t was assimilated by Brazilian music around the time of his death in 1959, and helped shape the bossa nova style (listen to Jobim and Getz). Masterful Work!
every single note charles mingus play is like a magic, and it's the blues!
Small wonder that Ellington was an idol-hero to Mingus. It was Duke who fathered the first important, virtuoso bass player in jazz, Jimmy Blanton, who died at the age of 23. But Duke instantly captured Blanton's unique, unprecedented talent by writing compositions for the band that featured the bass (not simply "open" choruses but complex arrangements in which Blanton would have a two-measure break and be the lead melody instrument in the ensemble: "Jack the Bear," "Ko-Ko," "Harlem Airshaft." Despite Duke's and Mingus's mutual admiration, Mingus was one of the very few musicians the non-contentious maestro ever fired from his band (the only other who comes to mind was Juan Tizol, and that occurred only because Tizol forced Duke to play his hand: "It's him (Cat Anderson) or me." Duke had no choice (had he fired with Cat, he would have looked like he was a servant to the wishes of any band member). Mingus was one of a mighty trio of bass players who emerged in jazz, practically simultaneously, on the heels of Blanton. The other 2? Ray Brown and Oscar Pettiford.
P.S. It's a shame how seldom great musicians, even today, have the opportunity to perform before a movie camera. We can have cable TV with up to 2000 channels, with 20 or more devoted to music. Yet jazz (make that "instrumental music") is considered commercial suicide: if it is, blame the deaf ears of the public, not the instrumentalist who has labored for countless hours. Charlie Parker is filmed on a single 2-minute snippet ("Hot House") with Diz. I'd give anything to have a 2-3 minute movie of Hank Mobley. As far as channel choices, how often to you see the category: "The Great American Songbook." Yet that library has had such an integral, symbiotic relationship with jazz that it's impossible to think of one without the other. (Coltrane was indebted to Rodgers and Hart for "Giant Steps" and to Rodgers and Hammerstein for "My Favorite Things." A television series devoted to this unique, indigenous form of music composition--the American Popular Song--could dwell on a single composer per week. It would beginning with ragtime, Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton. The 2nd week would be Irving Berlin.
Thanks for this one. Some superb musos performing a classic number. Despite a 40 year interest in jazz, I was not aware of either Don Pullen, or Benny Bailey. Totally fine playing.
Este é um dos mais belos temas de jazz. Sempre que posso, tento tocá-lo.
This is a great jazz tune.
Magnificent! One of the best recordings of this song I've heard.
need to put this and a lot more jazz and other true tunes of different fields back on the radio
Jazz Is truly an amazing American art form heavenly influenced by the struggle African Americans with great contributions from both afro & western euro influences. It is Americas Classical Music. Being somewhat of a jazz historian I found dog61's comment very hard to swallow.
One of my favorite songs, period.
ive just started listening to jazz and that makes me a newbie. Even I can know by instinct that these guys are some of the best.
pianist is Don Pullen - and his solo on the dvd is one of the sickest things I saw!
mingus, mingus, oh yeah!!this is a classic.. thank you so much.
lol the expression of the sax player at 4 21
priclesss lol
loveeee this songg man thks por the post
That bass solo is great. Mingus is a musical genius.
This song is so sad...it sounds the way my heart would feel if it was breaking...
this is my all time fav...a mo better blues classic
"When Charlie speaks of Lester/
You know someone great has gone"
were the opening words Joni Mitchell contributed to this musical gem.
Dude, that trumpet solo was amazing
hahaha!!!! you have a sence of humor too, great coment!!! Saludos desde Argentina!!!
Thanks Charles for the job well done
Wow! This is the first time that I have heard any other version of this song, other than Beck's, and it was incredible!
The horn playing blew my mind!
How appropriate that it was Mingus live!
Charlie Mingus is another artist that I will have to get to know.
one of my all time favorite baritone solos....wow
This is great! Thanks John!
Benny Baily, used to be Freddie Hubbards teacher,
He used to pop into the Basement Bar in Mannheim,
Germany in 1961 and jam with us youngsters from Munich, Joe Viera, Joe Haider and me. Ha!!
Gracias por compartir!
That sounds phenomenal!
This is incredible. Mingus has such an aggressive sound in this performance. It's harsh but beautiful at the same time. I wish I had been old enough to have seen this performance. i would have been 2 when this show happened.
I love those little bass fills that charlie plays after every modulation. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat is, in my opinion, one of the most meaningful blues and jazz standards, because it was jammed after mingus' band heard, that Lester Young died.
Also think the line up is just amazing...
Benny Bailey's solo 3:50 till 4:50, when he's repeating the theme again, is remarkable. And the whole song is a masterpiece !
man, you are exalted, can´t you just enjoy the song and relax a little bit? :D
Benny Bailey gives us a wonderful chorus !
@bruys I couldn't have said that any better. I love this stuff, classical rock, all kinds of metal, blues, reggae, jpop, jrock, and classical. Too bad you can't find good music on the radio except if it's public. But it just separates the real music fans from the people that just follow the radio's trends.
Extraordinary version of his classical piece!!
This vid is phenominal to say the least Thanks for the post But as much as I love Mingus I think my favorite rendition of Porkpie is on Jeff Becks Wired album Great feeling in every note There is also a good version on youtube by John Maclaughlin and Jonas Helborg. I saw them do it LIVE at a very small venue in Ft Worth with Trilok Gurtu on percussion. An amazing night. Got to meet them all, drank a few beers, got their autographs etc. That's been 25 yrs and I still regard it as one of the best
che bella composizione!
this is so amazing. WOW!
I didn't know Mulligan played with Mingus. Mingus is my heroe, and played with all my other heroes. It's incredible how he influenced other players as well as he influences future musiciens.
the tone he got out of that big ol upright is a thing of beauty.
Mingus Mingus Mingus. The God of jazz.
Benny Bailey is so fucking great. One of the most underappreciated players in jazz history. I love at 4:21 how much Gerry is digging Benny's solo.
Jesse Keller for real. That solo on cold duck time blows me away!!!😎
pork pie exclusive version !
every mentz solo extra ,azzam.
shivering
This is so very nice!!
no words.. just music
Great performance as per usual.
Joder, ando jodidamente enojado, y escuho esta bellísima música y me relajo como no tienen idea... Espectacular!
Has to be one of the best trumpet solos I've ever heard. It sounds like the blues apocalypse. It's perfectly paced. And, of course, Mingus ain't too bad either.
This is incredible!
Amen to that. Greatest jazzman of the 2nd half of the 20th century - I include Ellington, Armstrong, Dizzy and Bird in the first half.
But Mingus exceeds them all in some ways because of his compositions and complete mastery and profound understanding of jazz. He was steeped in European classical tradtion but knew how to use it all to create incredible JAZZ - always leaving room for individual expression.
Be like me... hybrid, if not blood, is the soul.
Mingus is the greatest composer of the 20th century.
Don Pullen just puts it down on all of these videos.
This is pretty freaking amazing.
@nukes27. LOVE IT. "That's Jazz" and poetry and art and the challenge of living in ONE world when you are interpreting the OTHERworldly.
I love this tune so bad - i've request to have it played at my goin away party.
There´s nothing like that Mingus solos. Im about to eat on the floor in my house and light patchouli with this. No words to explain the deepest emotions...
Mingus...just close your eyes...tune out and tune in...and listen
Language of the soul.
Migus is the man. What great harmony in his solo
I got chills watching this, it's as intense as it's hypnotizing, this piece ran the voodoo on me
I'm so glad to know this song and to find this particular version. Oh, and reading all the comments i come to think that i'm also so glad to be brazilian and mixed. How much different does it make if you're black or white? Be glad to have ears people.
one of my favorite books i try to read it at least once year. awesome book, great read, super autobiography, "hey mingus can you put your soul down onto 200 pages of paper in text form?" "aright"
absolutely awesome
I used to own a pork pie hat. My old grand auntie used to tease me about it every time she saw me wearing it.
Now you've got something to tease that old bitch back.
thenextmarlon watch your mouth punk.
komjong Christ has risen!
priceless video treasure
I wish there was more volume. But this is surely a classic.
5:58 Mount Mingus finally erupts! Epic :)
espectacular!!...
ok. I love lots of music, quite independent of style and time
but if i had to choose my absolute favourite:
It would be the wonder of sound of this
(blown away)
876,606 hits.... the master deserves the best
seriously amazing
@technothanks The fact that people all over the world love and perform "jazz" is only testament to the Afro American genius in this regard. People all over the world play Reggae. Is it thereby less Jamaican? Is "Salsa" less Caribbean because Norwegians perform the style? Music is certainly a regional phenomenon, born of the expressions of distinct ethnic groups, each with their own forms of group expression. That is the beauty of music, and the reason why we have distinct forms of it.
Merci William Gutiérrez!
love, and lots of it..,
ur doing gods work.