Mingus Jazz Workshop 1964-65 Mosaic Box
Happy New Year one and all.
I was lucky enough to receive this new Mingus set for xmas, and am listening to it very slowly and gradually. I am posting simply to ask if anyone on here is familiar with the original release of Town Hall Concert 1964 (the sextet recorded just before leaving for the European tour) and whether they think there might be a splice on the tape in So Long Eric at about 15.36 between the (apparent) end of Dolphy's solo and the immediate reappearance of the theme. There's no mention of it in Priestley's accompanying essay, but then he doesn't say anything at all about the second half of this performance, neither the Mingus-Richmond taded fours or Dolphy's extra-planetary excursion.
It's either a pretty good splice or this band was even slicker than I previously thought. But it sounds like a splice and Mingus was pretty good at making great records by cutting parts out of solos (Boogie Stop Shuffle is perhaps the most amazing example of this, I think). I think the splice hypothesis is supported by the fact that Clifford Jordan's solo returns from double-time to a final closing chorus in the original time: and that final chorus is the one that I think Mingus spliced out from Dolphy's solo.
Maybe I should have called this post Meditations on a pair of tape-scissors?
I was lucky enough to receive this new Mingus set for xmas, and am listening to it very slowly and gradually. I am posting simply to ask if anyone on here is familiar with the original release of Town Hall Concert 1964 (the sextet recorded just before leaving for the European tour) and whether they think there might be a splice on the tape in So Long Eric at about 15.36 between the (apparent) end of Dolphy's solo and the immediate reappearance of the theme. There's no mention of it in Priestley's accompanying essay, but then he doesn't say anything at all about the second half of this performance, neither the Mingus-Richmond taded fours or Dolphy's extra-planetary excursion.
It's either a pretty good splice or this band was even slicker than I previously thought. But it sounds like a splice and Mingus was pretty good at making great records by cutting parts out of solos (Boogie Stop Shuffle is perhaps the most amazing example of this, I think). I think the splice hypothesis is supported by the fact that Clifford Jordan's solo returns from double-time to a final closing chorus in the original time: and that final chorus is the one that I think Mingus spliced out from Dolphy's solo.
Maybe I should have called this post Meditations on a pair of tape-scissors?
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