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Charles Mingus - Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus - 180g LP
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Pure Pleasure / Candid - CJS9005 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue
Limited Edition - Pressed at Pallas Germany - PPAN SD1459
Pure Analogue Audiophile Mastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering London
"…This record is required listening for any lover of jazz, even those who are generally shy of the more avant-garde sound of Dolphy mixed with the creative genius that always defined Mingus. It is a classic that deserves a place on the shelf along side of more accessible and better-known Columbia classics Mingus Ah Um and Mingus Dynasty…The original Candid pressings were first rate, and this re-issue combines all the strengths of the original with a better mastering chain and superior vinyl." Recording = 9/10; Music = 10/10 – Dennis Davis, Hi-Fi+,
Rising to the challenge of the controversial music of Ornette Coleman in the '60s, Charles Mingus formed a quartet with Dannie Richmond, Ted Curson, and Eric Dolphy. "Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus" its the quartet's only album and is often considered one of Mingus' best.
Mingus' formal education with H. Rheinshagen (bassist of the New York Philharmonic), and the legendary Lloyd Reese, along with listening to jazz-greats, and even touring in his early adulthood with masters such as Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton, led him to become one of the most important American music icons in the twentieth century.
Charles Mingus has a fascinating way of offering music that is grounded in tradition while remaining startlingly original. The freshness of a disc like Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus, has the effect of rendering much of what passes for jazz as tedious. The band is small for Mingus, and includes Eric Dolphy on alto saxophone and bass clarinet, Ted Curson on trumpet, and Dannie Richmond on drums. It would be one of Dolphy and Curson's last recording dates with the artist, and they seem determined to go all out for it. The leader's bassline kicks off "Folk Forms No. 1," followed by Dolphy outlining the melody, and then joined by Curson. A simple riff develops into a lively New Orleans funeral march that's developed for 12 minutes.
"Original Faubus Fables" is serious in intent -- a political attack on segregation governor Faubus -- but Mingus and Richmond's singing is difficult to listen to with a straight face. Still, this doesn't distract from the wonderful music. Again and again, the elasticity of the sound is fascinating, at once spacious with the bass and drums balanced against the brass and then noisy, with the horns wailing and crying. The last two pieces, "What Love?" and the outrageously titled "All the Things You Could Be by Now if Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother," are much looser, bordering on free jazz. The album accomplishes what the best of Mingus accomplishes: the perfect tension between jazz played as an ensemble and jazz played as totally free.
Musicians:
Charles Mingus, bass
Ted Curson, trumpet
Eric Dolphy, alto saxophone, bass clarinet
Dannie Richmond, drummer
Selections:
1. Folk Forms, No. 1
2. Original Faubus Fables
3. What Love
4. All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother
Recorded at Nola Penthouse Sound Studios, New York October 20, 1960
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At the beginning of the 90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the situation was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and, of course, Pure Pleasure all maintained a mutual, unwritten ethical code: we would only use analogue tapes to manufacture records. During the course of the present vinyl hype, many others have jumped on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source to master from: CDs, LPs, digital files, MP3s – or employed existent tools from the 80s and 90s for manufacturing.
A digital delay is gladly used when cutting a lacquer disc because tape machines with an analogue delay have become quite rare and are therefore expensive. When cutting the lacquer, the audio signal is delayed by one LP revolution against the signal, which controls the cutter head, and for this a digital delay is very often employed. Of course, the resultant sound signal is completely digital and thus only as good as this delay.
We should like to emphasize that Pure Pleasure Records on principle only uses the original master tape as the basis for the entirely analogue cutting of lacquer discs. In addition, the pressing tool is newly manufactured as a matter of principle. We only employ existing tools for manufacturing if an improved result is not forthcoming, e.g. the title Elvis Is Back, which was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, or several titles from our Philips Classics series, which in any case Willem Makkee cut from the original masters at the Emil Berliner Studios in the 90s. It goes without saying that we only used the mother and that new tools were made for our production. To put it in a nutshell: we can ensure you that our releases are free from any kind of digital effects and that the lacquer discs are newly cut.
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