Eric Dolphy with Mingus, it’s sublime. I can watch the live videos on YouTube from Mingus’ 1964 European Tour over and over again. It’s such a passionate, fiery and deeply interesting brand of jazz. This is my first Candid LP. The label has some great titles to be enjoyed. I have already secured another one just a few days ago. I’m still looking for two very special titles; one with Booker Little as a leader and one with Booker Ervin. I’m sure there are more great titles on Candid which I will of course investigate.
Very happy to have secured the album on display here. It features a couple of wonderful Mingus originals. The band consists of some great musicians, like Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson, Booker Ervin and Dannie Richmond to name a few. I truly love Mingus’ music. It’s so full of life, joy, anger, fire, romance, empathy, artistic expression, compositional excellence and so on. This album is no exception. A wonderful session worth seeking out. I’m aiming to collect a lot more of Mingus’ work. I have a couple more albums of his which I haven’t posted yet, stay tuned for those. I have posted “The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady” and “Mingus Ah Um” before, so check those two posts out if you haven’t already.
This year has been quite productive in getting more titles onto my shelves. I have been fortunate enough to been able to add some great titles in superb condition. I’ve largely stayed away from super high-end stuff on Blue Note for example, and instead focused on some cheaper originals (relatively, compared to the more expensive Blue Notes) like this Candid release and other stuff on New Jazz, Atlantic and Impulse. I have managed to add some heavy hitters as well. It’s been a nice mix of interesting albums from different labels. I’m expecting a couple of newcomers. One hopefully today or tomorrow and one later in the week. Both are superb albums, but one is so outstanding that I can’t wait for it to arrive, so I can put it on the turntable and be blown away. It’s a live session and it has become one of my absolute favorite albums. Stay tuned for that one coming up.
Some questions for my readers: What’s your take on this album? Does it make your Mingus top 10? Top 3 Candid releases? Please share your thoughts guys.
As I write this I just got a note that one of my incoming albums has arrived. I will go out and fetch it. This turned out to be a really good Monday. Stay safe and enjoy your records. Cheers!