Charles Mingus – Stormy & Funky Blues

here is the info file from Dime

Well, seems that Charlie Mingus’ bootlegs are well accepted @ Dime. The previously uploaded have a low sound quality (audience?), this one got a better one as you may read in the included AMG review and some drawbacks.
As before, full artwork is included as JPEG files.

Moon Records MCD064-2 Stormy & Funky Blues Released 04/19/95

Charles Mingus
Stormy & Funky Blues
(P)(C) Moon Records
Moon MCD064-2

Compact Disc (unauthorized)

Tracks

Blues Medley (9:38)
John’s Blues aka Blues for Roy’s Saw
Noddin’ Ya Head Blues
Flowers For A Lady [Angry Reeds] (9:09) (George Adams)
Stormy & Funky Blues (7:38) (Mingus, Adams)
Opus 3 [Squeezed Strings] (15:44)
Cumbia & Jazz Fusion (incomplete) (15:35)
All compositions by Charles Mingus unless otherwise noted

Personnel

1:
Jon Faddis – trumpet
Charles McPherson – alto sax
Bobby Jones – tenor sax
John Foster – piano, vocal
Charles Mingus – bass
Roy Brooks – drums, musical saw
2-4:
George Adams – tenor sax, vocal
Hamiet Bluiett – baritone sax
Don Pullen – piano
Charles Mingus – bass
Dannie Richmond – drums
5:
Jack Walrath – trumpet
Ricky Ford – tenor sax
Bob Neloms – piano
Charles Mingus – bass
Dannie Richmond – drums
Information

Date and location
1: August 17, 1972, Munich, Germany (according to CD: Stuttgart, 1971)
2-4: July 28, 1974, Todi, Umbria Jazz Festival, Italy (according to CD: 1975, Perugia, Italy)
5: July 20, 1977, Milano, Italy (according to CD: 1976)
Total time
57:47

The track listing on the CD liner notes is almost completely wrong and it is fixed here, except for Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson tune (?) ‘John’s Blues’, which appears also as ‘Blues for Some Bones’ on "Live In Chateauvallon, 1972", and for ‘Stormy & Funky Blues’, which seems to be a blues jam with an improvised riff theme.

AMG review:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kjfwxqthldhe
All Music Guide
Stormy Funky Blues is a kind of mishmash collection of some late live recordings by three Mingus-led small bands. It’s listed by Sue Mingus, the late composer’s wife, as one of many bootleg albums that the Mingus estate encourages fans not to buy, so the listener may wish to consider this request. Then again, it’s likely the only time that someone (Roy Brooks here) performed a musical saw solo on a Mingus session. The piece called "Angry Reeds" is actually "Flowers for a Lady" from Mingus Moves and composed by George Adams, not Mingus as credited on the disc, but, aside from the shabby labeling, it’s actually a stronger performance than the official version, taken at a faster tempo and featuring a stratospheric tenor solo from Adams. Similarly, "Squeezed Strings" is actually "Opus 3," also from Mingus Moves, but also, arguably, a more inspired reading than the original with baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett is fine form. The title track is the sort of loose blues that the band with Adams and Pullen played regularly, with the former on strangulated vocals not far from his "Devil Woman" on other recordings. Most interesting is the version of "Cumbia and Jazz Fusion," here scaled down to a quintet arrangement without, among other things, the layers of percussion on the authorized recording. This barebones approach gives the composition even more strength and spine and also contains some wonderful solo work by trumpeter Jack Walrath, but just as the piece is warming up, the tape suddenly ends. The sound quality is hit and miss and the audience applause is often irritatingly loud. For fans, it’s a valuable document of late period Mingus, but the buyer will have to make the decision on the appropriateness of purchasing a product whose proceeds will not benefit Mingus’ heirs and family at all. – Brian Olewnick, All Music Guide

Enjoy!