Mingus, Charles | Pal 0 - Epitaph Live | DVD

Charles Mingus was an American jazz double bass player, pianist, composer, bandleader and civil rights activist, born in Nogales, Arizona, on 22 April 1922. His profile credits him as a pioneer of double bass technique, of overdubbing, and of cutting up and reassembling tapes of different takes in the studio. He died in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in 1979, and wrote the autobiographical novel 'Beneath the Underdog'.

Epitaph is a 1 DVD recording of the world premiere performance of Charles Mingus's Epitaph, conducted by Gunther Schuller with 30 jazz musicians at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Centre, New York, in June 1989. The work was discovered after Mingus's death and is described as the largest and longest piece ever written for a jazz orchestra. This is a PAL region 2 DVD released by Eagle Vision in 2008, with English language and Danish subtitles, running about 131 minutes.

Track List

1. Main Scene: Part One
2. Percussion Discussion
3. Main Scene: Part Two
4. Started Melody
5. The Soul
6. Ballad (In Other Words I Am There)
7. Moods In Mambo
8. Self Portrait: The Chill Of Death
9. O. P. (Oscar Pettiford)
10. Please Don't Come Back From The Moon
11. Monk, Bunk & Vice Versa (Osmotin)
12. Peggy's Blue Skylight
13. Wolverine Blues
14. The Children's Hour Of Dream
15. Freedom
16. Interlude (The Underdog Rising)
17. Better Get It In Your Soul
18. Noon Night
19. Main Score Reprise