Category: Charles Mingus
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Santa Cruz Blues
LN jg1985-10-16.jgjk.all.sbd-Miller.139756.flac1644 One of the most widely bootlegged Garcia performances, alongside the ’82 Oregon State Penitentiary gig, is another Garcia-Kahn acoustic duet performance from the Catalyst in Santa Cruz on October 16, 1985. As with other beautiful recordings from this venue, an enterprising insider made a 4-channel tape combining stereo sbd feed and stereo ambient…
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“You can’t improvise on nothing, man.”
–Charles Mingus to Timothy Leary Santoro, George. 2000.Myself When I am Real : The Life and Music of Charles Mingus. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Via Google Books, URL http://books.google.com/books?id=qdWqrp9z5isC&lpg=PA270&pg=PA270#v=onepage&q&f=false, accessed 7/5/2013. Sometimes appended with “You’ve got to improvise on something.” http://secondlanguage.blogspot.com/2008/07/between-bullshit-and-plagiarism.html.
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Beneath the Underdog
Finished it a week or so ago. Feh. Didn’t really get what people see in it. That it’s nonlinear and therefore somehow jazzy? I thought it was self-indulgent crap. I need to look up some info (maybe read a real biography of Mingus) to find out when it was written. It wouldn’t surprise if it…