International independent record store releases will include albums by Charles Mingus, Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard, Vince Guaraldi and more on April 12.
Vinyl albums have outlasted everything from reel-to-reel, 8-track and cassette tapes to CDs, iPods and streaming services in the minds and ears of many audiophiles. And the latest installment of the 21st Century phenomenon known as Record Store Day, celebrated on April 12, will include numerous jazz artists among its countless releases.
One is the three-LP In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (Resonance) by Charles Mingus (1922-1979). The celebrated bassist and composer died from ALS less than two years after these concert recordings. This expansive live set includes renditions of “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,” “Fables of Faubus” and “Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love” with the leader’s little-heard, latter-era quintet that included saxophonist Ricky Ford, trumpeter Jack Walrath, pianist Robert Neloms and drummer Dannie Richmond.
Other notable releases include pianist Bill Evans’ Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964-1969 (Elemental), trumpeter Freddie Hubbard’s On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (Resonance) and pianist Vince Guaraldi’s Selections From the Original Soundtrack It’s the Easter Beagle Charlie Brown (Lee Mendelson) and Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown (Craft).
Vinyl fans can also find other reissues and first-time releases on Candid (Mingus’ Mingus at Monterey, Jaki Byard’s Blues for Smoke, Nancy Harrow’s Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues, Memphis Slim’s Memphis Slim, U.S.A.); Strata East/Mack Avenue (Pharaoh Sanders’ Izipho Zam (My Gifts)); Resonance (the Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly Trio’s Smokin’ in Seattle: Live at The Penthouse, Kenny Dorham’s Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco); Rhino (Count Basie’s Best of the Roulette Years); Prestige Elite (Astrud Gilberto’s That Girl From Ipanema); and Craft (Gerry Mulligan/Thelonious Monk’s Mulligan Meets Monk).
For further information, visit recordstoreday.com. You can also check out the latest vinyl available from JAZZIZ here: https://store.jazziz.com/products/jazziz-vinyl-club-vol-5.
Photo by Uberto Sagramoso (from left, Ricky Ford, Jack Walrath, Robert Neloms, Dannie Richmond, hidden, and Charles Mingus)
