- The complete Birdland Broadcasts spanning October 1961-October 1962
- Includes the entire WADO broadcast
- Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality
- Background liners
Between October 1961 and October 1962, numerous Charles Mingus performances were broadcast on WADO in New York, featuring the great jazz bassist leading about half a dozen different line-ups.
This three-CD set features such sterling accompanists as Roland Kirk, Yusef Lateef, Booker Ervin, Charles McPherson, Jaki Byard, and Toshiko Ashiyoshi on selections dominated by Mingus compositions, several of which would make it onto his 1962 album Oh Yeah.
Also featured are several numbers on which Mingus switches from his customary bass to piano, an instrument on which he was more than competent.
Track Listing:
Disc One
- Blue Cee
- Ecclusiastics
- Hog Callin' Blues
- Introduction to Symphony Sid
- Take the 'A' Train
- Fables of Faubus
- Eat That Chicken
- Monk, Funk or Vice Versa
- Oh Lord, Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me, Drop It on Themselves, Coz They Made It
- Eat That Chicken
Disc Two
- Eat That Chicken
- Reets and I
- Monk, Funk or Vice Versa
- Devil Woman
- Eat That Chicken
- Introduction to Symphony Sid
- Peggy's Blue Skylight
- Tijuana Table Dance (a.k.a. Ysabel's Table Dance)
- Eat That Chicken
Disc Three
- I Can't Get Started
- Monk, Funk or Vice Versa
- Please Don't Come Back from the Moon
- Eat That Chicken
- Eat That Chicken
- Monk, Funk or Vice Versa
- O.P.
- The Search
