Tonight at Noon
Tonight at Noon | ||||
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Studio album by Charles Mingus | ||||
Released | July 1964 (1964-07)[1] | |||
Recorded | March 12, 1957, and November 6, 1961 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 38:08 | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
Producer | Joel Dorn | |||
Charles Mingus chronology | ||||
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Tonight at Noon is an album of music by the jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus. It was released through Atlantic Records in July 1964.[1] It compiles tracks recorded at two sessions – the 1957 sessions for the album entitled The Clown and the 1961 sessions for Oh Yeah. These tracks have since been added to the CD re-releases of their respective albums as bonus tracks.
Reception
The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek stated: "While the former session features Mingus going for the blues via European harmonics and melodic approaches with hard bop tempos (particularly on the title track), the latter session with its nocturnal elegance and spatial irregularities comes off more as some kind of exercise in vanguard Ellington with sophisticated harmonies that give way to languid marches and gospel-tinged blues... Despite the fact that this is an assembled album, it holds plenty of magic nonetheless".[2]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Record Mirror | [3] |
Track listing
- All compositions by Charles Mingus
- "Tonight at Noon" – 6:00
- "Invisible Lady" – 4:51
- ""Old" Blues for Walt's Torin" [aka "Roland Kirk's Message"] – 7:57
- "Peggy's Blue Skylight" – 9:46
- "Passions of a Woman Loved" – 9:47
- Recorded at Atlantic Studios in New York City on March 13, 1957 (tracks 1 & 5) and November 6, 1961
Personnel
- Charles Mingus – bass, piano, vocals
- Jimmy Knepper – trombone
- Shafi Hadi (as Curtis Porter) (tracks 1 & 5) – alto saxophone
- Booker Ervin (tracks 2–4) – tenor saxophone
- Roland Kirk – tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, siren, flute (tracks 2–4)
- Wade Legge – piano (tracks 1 & 5)
- Doug Watkins – bass (tracks 2–4)
- Dannie Richmond – drums
References
- ^ a b Zhito, Lee; Ackerman, Paul; Sternfield, Aaron, eds. (July 18, 1964). "New Album Releases". Billboard. Cincinnati: The Billboard Publishing Co. p. 35.
- ^ a b Jurek, T. AllMusic Review accessed June 10, 2011
- ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (27 February 1965). "Charlie Mingus: Tonight At Noon" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 207. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
External links
Text of the Adrian Henri poem:Tonight at Noon:here
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albums
- The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus
- Jazz Composers Workshop
- Pithecanthropus Erectus
- The Clown
- East Coasting
- Mingus Three
- A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry
- Mingus Ah Um
- Blues & Roots
- Mingus Dynasty
- Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
- Pre-Bird
- Mingus
- Oh Yeah
- Tijuana Moods
- Money Jungle
- The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
- Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
- Tonight at Noon
- Mingus Plays Piano
- Blue Bird
- Pithycanthropus Erectus
- Let My Children Hear Music
- Mingus Moves
- Changes One
- Changes Two
- Three or Four Shades of Blues
- His Final Work
- Cumbia & Jazz Fusion
- Something Like a Bird
- Charles Mingus with Orchestra
- Reincarnation of a Lovebird
albums
- Mingus at the Bohemia (1956)
- Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959)
- The Complete Town Hall Concert (1962)
- The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1963)
- Astral Weeks (1964)
- Town Hall Concert (1964)
- Revenge! (1964)
- The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (1964)
- Mingus in Europe Volume I (1964)
- Mingus in Europe Volume II (1964)
- Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964)
- Mingus at Monterey (1964)
- My Favorite Quintet (1965)
- Music Written for Monterey 1965 (1965)
- Charles Mingus Sextet In Berlin (1970)
- Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972)
- Mingus at Antibes (1974)
- Mingus at Carnegie Hall (1974)
- Cornell 1964 (2007)
- Beneath the Underdog (1971 autobiography)
- Mingus Big Band
- Mingus Dynasty
- Sue Mingus
- Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)
- Weary Blues (1958)
- Newport Rebels (1960)
- Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1964)
- Mingus (1979)
- Epitaph (1990)
- Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968
- Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (1998 documentary)