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unknown:

1956:

30Jan: Charles Mingus Quintet

Jackie McLean (as) J.R. Monterose (ts -1/4) Mal Waldron (p) Charles Mingus (b) Willie Jones (d)

1957:

09Jul: Charles Mingus Trio

Hampton Hawes (p -1,3/8) Sonny Clark (p -2) Charles Mingus (b) Dannie Richmond (d)

1959:

04Feb: Charles Mingus Nonet

Willie Dennis, Jimmy Knepper (tb) John Handy, Jackie McLean (as) Booker Ervin (ts) Pepper Adams (bars) Mal Waldron (p -1) Horace Parlan (p -2/8) Charles Mingus (b) Dannie Richmond (d)

05May: Charles Mingus Septet

Jimmy Knepper (tb -1/4) John Handy (as, cl) Booker Ervin (ts) Curtis Porter (ts, as) Horace Parlan (p) Charles Mingus (b) Dannie Richmond (d)

1961:

06Nov: Charles Mingus Sextet

Jimmy Knepper (tb) Booker Ervin (ts) Roland Kirk (ts, mzo, str, siren, fl) Charles Mingus (p, vo, nar) Doug Watkins (b) Dannie Richmond (d)

1962:

17Sept: Duke Ellington Trio

Duke Ellington (p) Charles Mingus (b) Max Roach (d)

1963:

20Jan: Charles Mingus Orchestra

Rolf Ericson, Richard Williams (tp) Quentin Jackson (tb) Don Butterfield (cbtb, tu) Jerome Richardson (fl, ss, bars) Dick Hafer (fl, ts) Charlie Mariano (as) Jaki Byard (p) Jay Barliner (g) Charles Mingus (b, p) Dannie Richmond (d)

20Sept: Charles Mingus Orchestra

Eddie Preston, Richard Williams (tp) Britt Woodman (tb) Don Butterfield (tu) Dick Hafer (fl, cl, ts) Jerome Richardson (fl, ss, bars) Eric Dolphy (as, fl) Booker Ervin (ts) Jaki Byard (p) Charles Mingus (b, nar) Walter Perkins (d)

1973:

Oct: Charles Mingus Quintet

Ronald Hampton (tp, tamb) George Adams (ts, fl) Don Pullen (p, org) Charles Mingus (b) Dannie Richmond (d) Honey Gordon, Doug Hammond (vo -3) Sy Johnson (arr)

1977

06Nov? Charles Mingus Tentet

Jeffrey plays (ts) Mulligan plays (bars) Mingus plays (b, vo)

1978:

23Jan: Charles Mingus Orchestra

Mike Davis (tp) Randy Brecker (tp -1/3) Jack Walrath (tp, arr) Jimmy Knepper, Keith O'Quinn (tb) Lee Konitz, Yoshiaki Malta, Akira Ohmori (as) Ken Hitchcock (as, ss) Daniel Block, Ricky Ford, John Tank (ts) Michael Brecker (ts -1/3) Pepper Adams, Ronnie Cuber, Craig Purpura (bars) Bob Neloms (p) Larry Coryell, Ted Dunbar, Jack Wilkins (g) Danny Toan (g -4) Eddie Gomez (b) Joe Chambers, Dannie Richmond (d) Charles Mingus (comp, arr) Paul Jeffrey (arr, cond)

nobody took me up
on my challenge
so i guess it's down to me

i think america's top40 is in decent shape
timbaland, rhianna, justin timberlake, pink, gwen stefani, avril lavigne

rap's verbal rhythms have inspired
a quantum leap in rhythmic intensity

'sweet escape' illustrates this twice

the doubletime lyrics:

I've been acting like sour milk all on the floor
It's your fault you didn't shut the refrigerator
Maybe that's the reason I've been acting so cold?

remind me of letters to cleo, among others:

(The comfort of a knowledge of a rise above the sky
above could never parallel the challenge of an acquisition)

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and also in 'sweet escape' the litany
with heavy terminal beats on weak rhymes:

So baby, times get a little crazy
I've been gettin' a little lazy, waitin' on you to come save me
I can see that you're angry by the way that you treat me
Hopefully you don't leave me, wanna take you with me

remind me (implausibly) of shakespeare's 87th sonnet:


Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,
And like enough thou know'st thy estimate,
The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing;
My bonds in thee are all determinate.
For how do I hold thee but by thy granting?
And for that riches where is my deserving?
The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting,
And so my patent back again is swerving.
Thy self thou gavest, thy own worth then not knowing,
Or me to whom thou gav'st it else mistaking;
So thy great gift, upon misprision growing,
Comes home again, on better judgement making.
Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter,
In sleep a king, but waking no such matter.