Jazz Festival, Antibes, July 13, 1960

Alto Saxophone – Eric Dolphy
Bass – Charles Mingus
Drums – Dannie Richmond
Piano - Bud Powell
Tenor Saxophone – Booker Ervin
Trumpet – Ted Curson

On “I’ll Remember April,” Bud Powell joins on piano.

Recorded live by Barclay Studios for Atlantic Records at the Antibes Jazz Festival, Juan-les-Pins, France, July 13, 1960.

"This is one of the great Mingus albums. It was recorded live at the Antibes Jazz Festival in 1960 with a group many listeners feel was Mingus’ best, during one of the bassist/composer’s most productive and boundary-stretching periods. At a time when Ornette Coleman’s free jazz was just beginning to be heard and the avant-garde movement which would follow his example was still gestating, Mingus and his musicians, particularly the incandescent Eric Dolphy, were proposing a brand of freedom built on black folk forms and the skeletal remains of popular song structures. This album captures their freedom-with-order, which was to become a principal influence on Anthony Braxton, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and the other structuralists of the Midwestern avante-garde almost ten years later, at a peak of interactive intensity. There is nothing quite like it in the rest of the Mingus discography. This is the first complete and authorized release of the Antibes concert anywhere." - Robert Palmer

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Promo Sound AG
Pressed By – Gramofonové Závody – H32834
Recorded At – Antibes Jazz Festival

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