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The Charles Mingus Centennial Sessions Vol 2 - Mingus Big Band
Recording Dates: January 28-31, 2020 | Vol 2 Release Date: Aug 9, 2024
In this follow-up to the Grammy-nominated Charles Mingus Centennial Sessions Volume 1, the legendary Mingus Big Band pulls from decades of experience from a weekly New York City residency to celebrate one hundred years of Mingus, his influence on the evolution of music, his extraordinary life, trailblazing career, and vital activism.
Drawn from his catalogue of 300+ compositions, highlights on this album include never-before-recorded compositions, new arrangements, vocals and narrations by Charles’ son Eric Mingus, and thirty-four first-class musicians, rotating in Mingus Big Band tradition. The 2020 week-long sessions were engineered by Rich Keller at Sound on Sound Studios, and directed by co-leaders Alex Foster and Boris Kozlov, the latter playing Mingus’ famous 1927 Ernst Heinrich Roth double bass.
GRAMMY WINNER in 2011: BEST LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE ALBUM
53rd Annual Grammy Awards
Release Date: 4/19/10 Jazz Workshop, Inc. | Jazz Standard
“Every tune a classic, every player a master, every tune sounding new, every player keeping the spirit of Charles Mingus alive and swinging!” -Michael Bourne, WBGO
2006 Grammy Nomination (49th Annual Grammy Awards)
Release Date: 9/26/06
Sue Mingus Music/Sunnyside Records/Universal Music Jazz France
Tracks:
1. Wham Bam
2. Opus Four
3. Celia
4. Bird Calls
5. Meditations
6. Prayer For Passive Resistance
7. Free Cell Block F
8. Ecclusiastics
2005 Grammy Nomination (48th Annual Grammy Awards)
”A rousing album.” New York Times
Sue Mingus Music / Sunnyside Records / Universal Music Jazz France,
GRAMMY-NOMINATED (66th Annual Grammy Awards
Release date October 7, 2022 Jazz Workshop, Inc.
The flagship repertory ensemble Mingus Big Band celebrates the 100th anniversary of Mingus’ birth with The Charles Mingus Centennial Sessions, its highest quality studio recording to date. Highlights include twenty-two compositions and new arrangements, vocals and narrations by Charles’ son Eric Mingus, and over thirty first-class musicians rotating in Mingus Big Band tradition.