RADIO ETHER
PROGRAM ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE
(CHARLES MINGUS ETHER)
“My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.”
- Charles Mingus
CHAPTER 1 1. Intro
2. Yesterdays [Piano Solo] (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) [April, 1951, Los Angeles] - The Charles Mingus Duo [The Charles Mingus Octet, Duo, Group - Debut Rarities vol.1~4 - Original Jazz Classics, Debut Records, Universal - 2007]
3. Eclipse [October 28, 1953, New York City] - The Charles Mingus Octet [The Charles Mingus Octet, Duo, Group - Debut Rarities vol.1~4 (2007]
4. Minor Intrusion (Charles Mingus) [The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus - Bethlehem - 1954] [Originally released by Period Records as two 10-inch LPs entitled Jazzical Moods and co-credited to John LaPorta]
5. Thrice Upon a Theme (Charles Mingus) [The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus - Bethlehem - 1954] [Originally released by Period Records as two 10-inch LPs entitled Jazzical Moods and co-credited to John LaPorta]
6. talk
7. Purple Heart (Charles Mingus) [Jazz Composers Workshop - Savoy - 1956]
8. Tea for Two (Irving Cesar, Vincent Youmans) [Jazz Composers Workshop - Savoy - 1956]
9. Jump Monk (Charles Mingus) [Mingus at the Bohemia - Debut Records - 1956]
10. Work Song (Charles Mingus) [Mingus at the Bohemia - Debut Records - 1956]
CHAPTER 2 11. talk
12. Profile of Jackie (Charles Mingus) [Pithecanthropus Erectus - Atlantic - 1956]
13. Love Chant (Charles Mingus) [Pithecanthropus Erectus - Atlantic - 1956]
14. Haitian Fight Song (Charles Mingus) [The Clown - Atlantic - 1957]
15. Reincarnation of a Lovebird (Charles Mingus) [The Clown - Atlantic - 1957]
16. talk
17. Yesterdays (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) [Mingus Three - Jubilee - 1957] 18. Summertime (George Gerswin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) [Mingus Three - Jubilee - 1957]
19. East Coasting (Charles Mingus) [East Coasting - Bethlehem - 1957]
20. Fifty-First Street Blues (Charles Mingus) [East Coasting - Bethlehem - 1957]
CHAPTER 3 21. talk
22. No Private Income Blues (Charles Mingus) [Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland - United Artists - 1959] [Recorded at the Nonagon Art Gallery in New York City on January 16, 1959]
23. Alice's Wonderland (Charles Mingus) [Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland - United Artists - 1959] [Recorded at the Nonagon Art Gallery in New York City on January 16, 1959]
24. Open Letter to Duke (original LP length: 4:56) (Charles Mingus) [Mingus Ah Um - Columbia - 1959]
25. Pussy Cat Dues (original LP length: 6:30) (Charles Mingus) [Mingus Ah Um - Columbia - 1959]
26. talk
27. Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting (Charles Mingus) [Blues & Roots - Atlantic - 1960]
28. Moanin' (Charles Mingus) [Blues & Roots - Atlantic - 1960]
29. Song with Orange (Charles Mingus) [Mingus Dynasty - Columbia - 1960]
30. Mood Indigo (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) [Mingus Dynasty - Columbia - 1960]
CHAPTER 4 31. talk
32. Original Faubus Fables (Charles Mingus) [Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus - Candid - 1961]
33. All the Things You Could Be by Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother [Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus - Candid - 1961]
34. Prayer For Passive Resistance (Charles Mingus) [Pre-Bird (later re-released as Mingus Revisited) - Mercury - 1961]
35. Half-Mast Inhibition (Charles Mingus) [Pre-Bird (later re-released as Mingus Revisited) - Mercury - 1961]
36. talk
37. Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) [Mingus! - Candid - 1961]
38. Lock 'Em Up (Mingus) [Mingus! - Candid - 1961]
39. Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am (Mingus) [Oh Yeah - Atlantic - 1962]
40. Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me (Mingus) [Oh Yeah - Atlantic - 1962]
CHAPTER 5 41. talk
42. Ysabel's Table Dance (Charles Mingus) [Tijuana Moods - RCA - 1962] [Recorded 1957])
43. Freedom Part 1 (Charles Mingus) [The Complete Town Hall Concert - Blue Note, United Artists - 1962]
44. Freedom Part 2 (Charles Mingus) [The Complete Town Hall Concert - Blue Note, United Artists - 1962]
45. Epitaph Part 1 (Charles Mingus) [The Complete Town Hall Concert - Blue Note, United Artists - 1962]
46. talk
47. Solo Dancer (Stop! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!) (Mingus) [The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Impulse! - 1963]
48. Group Dancers ({Soul Fusion} Freewoman And Oh This Freedom's Slave Cries) (Mingus) [The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Impulse! - 1963]
49. II B.S. (Mingus) [Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus - Impulse! - 1964]
50. talk
51. A Foggy Day (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach [The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach - Debut - 1964] [Recorded at the Café Bohemia in December 1955]
52. Drums (Charles Mingus, Max Roach) - The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach [The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach - Debut - 1964] [Recorded at the Café Bohemia in December 1955]
53. Invisible Lady (Charles Mingus) [Tonight at Noon - Debut - 1964]
54. Peggy's Blue Skylight (Charles Mingus) [Tonight at Noon - Debut - 1964]
CHAPTER 6 55. talk
56. Roland Kirk's Message (Mingus) [Mingus Plays Piano - Impulse! - 1964]
57. Orange Was the Color of Her Dress; Then Silk Blues (Mingus) [Mingus Plays Piano - Impulse! - 1964]
58. So Long Eric (Mingus) [Town Hall Concert - Jazz Workshop - 1964]
59. talk
60. Parkeriana (Dedicated To A Genius) (Charles Mingus) [The Great Concert of Charles Mingus - America - 1971] [Recorded at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France, on April 19, 1964.]
61. Meditation (for a Pair of Wire Cutters) (Charles Mingus) [Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop - Fantasy - 1966] [Recorded in San Francisco in 1964.]
CHAPTER 7 62. talk
63. The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers (Mingus) [Let My Children Hear Music - Columbia - 1972]
64. Don't Be Afraid, The Clown's Afraid Too (Mingus) [Let My Children Hear Music - Columbia - 1972]
65. Hobo Ho (Mingus) [Let My Children Hear Music - Columbia - 1972]
66. talk
67. Introduction to Little Royal Suite/Little Royal Suite (Charles Mingus) [Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert - Columbia - 1972] [Recorded at the Philharmonic Hall of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1972.]
68. Canon (Charles Mingus) [Mingus Moves - Atlantic - 1973]
CHAPTER 8 69. talk
70. Perdido (Ervin Drake, Hans Lengsfelder, Juan Tizol) [Mingus at Carnegie Hall - Atlantic - 1974]
71. Devil Blues (Mingus, George Adams, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown) [Changes One - Atlantic - 1975]
72. Duke Ellington's Sound of Love (Mingus) [Changes Two - Atlantic - 1975]
CHAPTER 9 73. talk
74. Three or Four Shades of Blues (Charles Mingus) [Three or Four Shades of Blues - Atlantic - 1977]
75. Cumbia and Jazz Fusion (Charles Mingus) [Cumbia & Jazz Fusion - Atlantic - 1977]
76. Farewell Farewell (Charles Mingus) [His Final Work (His Final Work is a reissue of Lionel Hampton Presents Charles Mingus, released in 1977, which was also reissued as The Music of Charles Mingus and credited to Lionel Hampton) - Who's Who in Jazz - 1977]
77. Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting (Charles Mingus) [Me Myself An Eye - Atlantic - 1979]
78. Outro
79. Jitterbug Waltz (Fats Waller) - Charles Mingus Sextet, featuring multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy [Cornell 1964 (It was recorded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, on March 18, 1964.) - Blue Note - 2007] [ETHER BONUS] 80. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (lyrics: Joni Mitchell; music: Charles Mingus) - Joni Mitchell, and a collaboration with composer and jazz musician Charles Mingus [Mingus - Asylum - 1979] [ETHER BONUS]
DJs: Charles Cicirella and Dan Klute
Friday, October 9, 2021 and Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Cleveland, Ohio and Chicago, Illinois
Artwork included
ENJOY!
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