Live album · 1990
Tracklist
1.1 Main Score Part 1 7:08
1.2 Percussion Discussion 8:36
1.3 Main Score Part 2 5:07
1.4 Started Melody 11:54
1.5 Better Get It in Your Soul 9:07
1.6 The Soul 3:19
1.7 Moods in Mambo 4:15
1.8 Self Portrait / Chill of Death 11:27
1.9 O.P. (Oscar Pettiford) 2:03
1.10 Please Don't Come Back From the Moon 9:50
2.1 Monk, Bunk & Vice Versa (Osmotin') 3:05
2.2 Peggy's Blue Skylight 4:35
2.3 Wolverine Blues 6:12
2.4 The Children's Hour of Dream 9:08
2.5 Ballad (In Other Words, I Am Three) 9:42
2.6 Freedom 7:03
2.7 Interlude (The Underdog Rising) 5:25
2.8 Noon Night 4:26
2.9 Main Score Reprise 4:48
Line-up/Musicians
Gunther Schuller (conductor)
John Handy, Jerome Richardson, Bobby Watson (alto saxophone)
Phil Bodner (tenor saxophone, oboe)
George Adams (tenor saxophone)
Roger Rosenberg, Gary Smulyan (baritone saxophone)
Randy Brecker, Wynton Marsalis, Lew Soloff, Jack Walrath, Joe Wilder, Snooky Young (trumpet)
Eddie Bert, Sam Burtis, Paul Faulise, Urbie Green, David Taylor, Britt Woodman (trombone)
Don Butterfield (tuba)
Dale Kelps (contrabass clarinet)
Michael Rabinowitz (bassoon)
Karl Berger (vibraphone)
Sir Roland Hanna, John Hicks (piano)
John Abercrombie (guitar)
Edwin Schuller, Reggie Johnson (bass)
Victor Lewis (drums)
Daniel Druckman (percussion)
About this release
Columbia C2K 45428 (US)
After Mingus's death, the score to Epitaph was rediscovered by Andrew Homzy, director of the jazz program at Concordia University, Montreal. He had been invited by Sue Mingus to catalogue a trunkful of Mingus's handwritten charts and in the process had discovered a vast assortment of orchestral pages written by Mingus with measures numbered consecutively well into the thousands. After some investigation, Homzy realized what it was that he had found and eventually managed to reassemble the Epitaph score. At that point Homzy and Sue Mingus got in touch with Gunther Schuller, who put together an all-star orchestra to play this very demanding piece of music.
With the help of a grant from the Ford Foundation, the score and instrumental parts were copied, and the piece itself was premiered by a 30-piece orchestra, conducted by Gunther Schuller. This concert was produced by Mingus' widow, Sue, at Alice Tully Hall on June 3, 1989, 10 years after his death.The same personnel performed the piece two days later at the Wolf Trap Farm Park outside of Washington, DC. A double-CD was later released by Columbia/Sony Records.
Thanks to snobb for the addition