Charles Mingus - Presents Charles Mingus - LP

1 LP - Import - remastered - on Candid

The combo here, referred to by Charles Mingus as The Jazz Workshop, had been in residence at the Showplace on W. 4th St. in Greenwich Village for nearly a year when they entered the studio to record what became the album "Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus" in October of 1961.

Saxophone and bass clarinet Eric Dolphy, trumpeter Ted Curson, and drummer Dannie Richmond had been performing the material on this album for weeks. Mingus decided to set a mood that might resemble a night at the club, in hopes to capture the fierceness the musicians had been exploring on stage. Produced by Candid co-founder, famed music critic and social activist, Nat Hentoff, the album accomplishes what the best of Mingus's work accomplishes; the perfect tension between jazz played as an ensemble and jazz played as totally free.