Charles Mingus - Free Cell Block F 'Tis Nazi USA - Live At Montreux (1975) [3-12]

[@martinehrlich9094]

I heard this quintet numerous times in Boston at the Jazz Workshop when I was a student at NEC. It was so powerful live in that club.

[@potaylo]

I was a student at Berklee at this time (1975) and saw Mingus with this line up twice. First time it was like nothing I had ever heard mostly because or George Adams was stomping his foot on the floor violently and playing his sax like a crazed wild man. I was a huge fan of Mingus before this but that was avant garde which I was still trying to figure out. Next time he came to, I believe it was call the Jazz workshop next to Paul's Mall They played the most mellow and beautifull Duke Ellington tunes. I sat down at Mingus's table for a moment and gave him a carving I had made for him and told him of my appreciation for his music and I think he acknowledged me with a few barely intelligible appreciative gruntish words. He always had the best of the best musicians which I believe were inspired to be their best. his music lives on for new generations to discover. He recorded a death music poem "The Chill of Death" which totally creeps me out especially now as I get closer and closer to the experience he describes which I don't really remember the details but it coming ahhhhhhhh

[@profel.3487]

woah! so you met him! Thanks for sharing the experience, take care

[@jeremytitus9519]

“I think he acknowledged me with a few barely intelligible appreciative grunting words” He sure was a character, that Mingus

[@GigiBarbarino]

George adams lho incontrato a Catania nel 1991 quanta nostalgia

[@moylanhome]

The song titles were mixed up on the album. If you sing Cell Block F tis Nazi USA to the first phrase you will see it fits nicely.

[@2367J]

Wow, no way! I would put that on my headphones while visiting Ney York and it was magic... Yeah never got the title but now it all makes sense haha

[@gingersoll6]

This is Remember Rockefeller at Attica

[@CptEtgar]

THANK YOU.

[@jdguitar1040]

My understanding is that this id Remember Rockefeller at Attica, not Free Cell Block F. Maybe there was an edit/cut in the video? Maybe Charles changed the call between when he introduced the tune and when they started? Maybe I'm old and losin' my mind? Whatever the case may be, God bless Charles Mingus and this band :)

[@leobec04]

este tema realmente se llama remember rockefeller at atica

[@darrellminx5459]

Incredibly free and inspired. Mingus the doctor Zuess of jazz.

[@TheGaetano62]

amazing don pullen solo

[@MrDkatz]

This one, on the album, anyway, is Remember Rockefeller At Attica. Mingus was kind of free and loose with his titles, often rotating them from one tune to another. Still great, no matter what the title...

[@PetranGavrosForever]

Beautiful, thank you for posting this ! If I recall the original recording is on an album that has vol. 1 & 2. I forget the album title ...

[@PetranGavrosForever]

Thanks so much ! Yes, these are the two albums :-) You're English is great my friend and your musical taste is outstanding ! Indeed, long live good jazz !

[@Shadowelite995]

2:30

[@marcomascaro2331]

This is Remember Rockfeller at Attica, the title is wrong.

[@jiyujizai]

💚🌼🌱😁

[@anglocalabro]

Just breaking balls...I am not an english professor, rather I thought you were the same aldo whom I seem to remember from high school in Cagliari..that's al!

[@GeorgetownSuds]

They need a 6th member just to follow George Adams around with a mic

[@clubedaserpente]

@PetranGavrosForever You're spelling "Changes One" and "Changes Two". Volume two tracks: 1. "Free Cell Block F, 'Tis Nazi U.S.A." 6:56 2. "Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Silk Blue" 17:32 3. "Black Bats and Poles" (Jack Walrath) 6:22 4. "Duke Ellington's Sound of Love" 4:15 5. "For Harry Carney" (Sy Johnson) 7:59 Thanks for the comment. Sorry about my english. Long life to good Jazz music!

[@ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1]

🤓👌

[@malcolmwood5843]

Love Adams' sound.

[@anglocalabro]

This command of english language might have been acquired only at Michelangelo's college in Cagliari...

[@thierryrilke9259]

sardinius sardinii i

[@miguelgonzal]

Jack Walrath looks physically different; almost like a different person.

[@bjburb8334]

Just lost weight

[@skineyemin4276]

Trumpet is too loud.

[@mauriciocorrea4811]

Yes, it is. And it's o.k.