Live at Jazz Standard (Mingus Big Band album)

2010 live album by Mingus Big Band

Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard

Live album by

Mingus Big Band

Released| April 22, 2010 (2010-04-22)
Recorded| December 31, 2009
Venue| Jazz Standard, New York City
Genre| Jazz, big band
Length| 71:53
Label| Jazz Workshop, Inc., Sue Mingus Music
Producer| Seth Abramson, Sue Mingus
Mingus Big Band chronology
| Live in Tokyo at the Blue Note
(2006)  | Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard
(2010)  | Mingus Sings
(2015)

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Live at Jazz Standard is an album by the Mingus Big Band that won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 2011.[1] The album documents a concert at the Jazz Standard club in New York City on New Year's Eve, 2009. The concert and the album commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of songs recorded by Charles Mingus. The band was conducted by Gunther Schuller and included trumpeter Randy Brecker, who played with Mingus during the 1970s.[2]

## Track listing

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All tracks are written by Charles Mingus.

No.| Title| Length

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1.| "Gunslinging Bird"| 7:31
2.| "New Now Know How"| 5:58
3.| "Self-Portrait in Three Colors"| 2:52
4.| "Bird Calls"| 5:50
5.| "E's Flat Ah's Flat Too (aka "Hora Decubitus")"| 7:08
6.| "Cryin' Blues"| 7:35
7.| "Open Letter to Duke"| 7:12
8.| "Moanin'"| 9:34
9.| "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"| 5:51
10.| "Song with Orange"| 12:22

## Personnel

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* Gunther Schuller – conductor
* Douglas Yates – soprano saxophone, alto saxophone
* Vincent Herring – alto saxophone
* Abraham Burton – tenor saxophone
* Wayne Escoffery – tenor saxophone
* Lauren Sevian – baritone saxophone
* Conrad Herwig – trombone
* Frank Lacy – trombone
* Earl McIntyre – bass trombone
* Earl Gardner – trumpet
* Kenny Rampton – trumpet
* Randy Brecker – trumpet
* Earl McIntyre – tuba
* Boris Kozlov – bass
* Jeff "Tain" Watts – drums
* David Kikoski – piano
* Seth Abramson – producer
* Sue Mingus – producer[3]

## References

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1. ^ "Live at Jazz Standard Awards". AllMusic. Archived from the original on March 14, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
2. ^ Murphy, Sean (5 August 2010). "Sue Mingus and the Mingus Big Band: Letting Our Children Hear Music". PopMatters. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
3. ^ "Mingus Big Band – Live at Jazz Standard". Discogs. Retrieved 13 March 2017.

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Discography

Studio
albums|

* The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus
* Jazz Composers Workshop
* Pithecanthropus Erectus
* The Clown
* East Coasting
* Mingus Three
* A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry
* Mingus Ah Um
* Blues & Roots
* Mingus Dynasty
* Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
* Pre-Bird
* Mingus
* Oh Yeah
* Tijuana Moods
* Money Jungle
* The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
* Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
* Tonight at Noon
* Mingus Plays Piano
* Blue Bird
* Pithycanthropus Erectus
* Let My Children Hear Music
* Mingus Moves
* Changes One
* Changes Two
* Three or Four Shades of Blues
* His Final Work
* Cumbia & Jazz Fusion
* Something Like a Bird
* Charles Mingus with Orchestra
* Reincarnation of a Lovebird

Live
albums|

* Mingus at the Bohemia (1956)
* Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959)
* The Complete Town Hall Concert (1962)
* The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1963)
* Astral Weeks (1964)
* Town Hall Concert (1964)
* Revenge! (1964)
* The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (1964)
* Mingus in Europe Volume I (1964)
* Mingus in Europe Volume II (1964)
* Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964)
* Mingus at Monterey (1964)
* My Favorite Quintet (1965)
* Music Written for Monterey 1965 (1965)
* Charles Mingus Sextet In Berlin (1970)
* Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972)
* Mingus at Antibes (1974)
* Mingus at Carnegie Hall (1974)
* Cornell 1964 (2007)

Books|

* Beneath the Underdog (1971 autobiography)

Related|

* Mingus Big Band
* Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard
* Mingus Dynasty
* Sue Mingus
* Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)
* Weary Blues (1958)
* Newport Rebels (1960)
* Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1964)
* Mingus (1979)
* Epitaph (1990)
* Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968
* Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (1998 documentary)

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