Charles Mingus - At Ucla 1965

Released 40 years ago but unavailable on CD until today, the title immediately announces the trials and tribulations that led to this extraordinary concert, summing up it's original intent ("music written for Monterey"), the failure of that event ("not played") and the triumphant closing chapter ("performed at UCLA") which premiered a large body of compositions Mingus had been working on all year for the Monterey Jazz Festival, that found it's true audience at a college concert the following week.

1) Opening Speech
2) Meditation on Inner Peace
3) Speech Introducing Musicians
4) Meditation on Inner Peace
5) Speech
6) Once Upon a Time There Was a Holding Corporation Called Old America (First False Start)
7) Lecture to Band
8) Once Upon a Time There Was a Holding Corporation Called Old America (2nd False Start) Piano Example. Expels Large Group from Band for Mental Tardiness
9) Ode to Bird and Dizzy (Quartet)
10) Speech: Call Octet Back
11) They Trespass the Land of the Sacred Sioux
12) Speech: Introduction to Hobart Dotson-The Arts of Tatum and Freddy Webster
13) Speech
14) Once Upon a Time There Was a Holding Corporation Called Old America
15) Speech to Lonnie Hillyer
16) Muskrat Ramble
17) Pause
18) Don't Be Afraid the Clown's Afraid Too
19) Don't Let It Happen Here