The morning of, Charlie Mingus and his band were arrested and accused of shoplifting. In the concert, Mingus states how he was roughed up, affecting his ability to play some songs. Pianist Jaki Byard was missing for the first song, but returns to play a solo and join the band, being late because he was still dealing with the police.
This features the complete early set of the day, and all the tracks in capitals are in between talks, where you here the mess Mingus and his musicians were in after their hectic day. Despite this, they still put on what I think is a beautiful concert.
The person behind bars in the cover is a heavily edited Mingus, and I was planning on calling the album Free Byard!! until i realized how similar that looked to Free Bird.
Besides Byard on piano and Mingus on bass, the band featured Eric Dolphy on alto sax, bass clarinet, and flute, Clifford Jordan on tenor sax, Johnny Coles on trumpet, and Dannie Richmond on drums.
1. FREE BYARD!!
2. so long, eric
3. BYARD FREED!!
4. at fw u.s.a.
5. FREE MINGUS!!
6. orange was the color of her dress, then blue silk
7. meditations
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