Charles Mingus at Carnegie Hall
documents one of the most extraordinary live jazz concerts. Atlantic Records released a one-disc LP of the same title in 1975, a few months after the heady event, but it included only the second half of the show—late-career Charles Mingus’s young quintet jamming for 45 minutes with three older guest stars on Ellington standards “C Jam Blues” and “Perdido” (the latter written by Juan Tizol). Left on the cutting-room floor was the entire first half—just the quintet, stretching for 75 minutes on Mingus classics
