LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

(...) Performed before a live audience at New York’s Club Bohemia on December 23, 1955, this album contains some of Mingus’ more adventuresome and jubilant works. Some of the tracks are arresting enough to require special comment. Generally, one is struck by the evocative, turbulent piano of Mal Waldron, particularly in Workshop and Jump Monk.


(...) As a bassist, Mingus remains unbelievable. No one can approach him as a technician or as an imaginative explorer. His double stops, glissandi at impossibly fast tempos and his blowing are legendary among bass men who, as a cellist once remarked of Piatagorsky, would expect to see him tuck the bass under his chin and bow it like a fiddle.

(from the original liner notes)

A numbered limited edition of 500 copies pressed on Audiophile Clear Vinyl (ACV).

Side A:
1. JUMP MONK 2. SERENADE IN BLUE 3. PERCUSSION DISCUSSION


Side B:
1. WORK SONG 2. SEPTEMBERLY 3. ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE IN C SHARP