Live at Jazz Standard (Mingus Big Band album)

Live at Jazz Standard is an album by the Mingus Big Band that won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 2011. The album documents a concert at the Jazz Standard club in New York City on New Year's Eve, 2009. The concert and the album commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of songs recorded by Charles Mingus. The band was conducted by Gunther Schuller and included trumpeter Randy Brecker, who played with Mingus during the 1970s.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Charles Mingus

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Gunslinging Bird"	7:31
2.	"New Now Know How"	5:58
3.	"Self-Portrait in Three Colors"	2:52
4.	"Bird Calls"	5:50
5.	"E's Flat Ah's Flat Too (aka "Hora Decubitus")"	7:08
6.	"Cryin' Blues"	7:35
7.	"Open Letter to Duke"	7:12
8.	"Moanin'"	9:34
9.	"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"	5:51
10.	"Song with Orange"	12:22

Personnel

Gunther Schuller – conductor
Douglas Yates – soprano saxophone, alto saxophone
Vincent Herring – alto saxophone
Abraham Burton – tenor saxophone
Wayne Escoffery – tenor saxophone
Lauren Sevian – baritone saxophone
Conrad Herwig – trombone
Frank Lacy – trombone
Earl McIntyre – bass trombone
Earl Gardner – trumpet
Kenny Rampton – trumpet
Randy Brecker – trumpet
Earl McIntyre – tuba
Boris Kozlov – bass
Jeff "Tain" Watts – drums
David Kikoski – piano
Seth Abramson – producer
Sue Mingus – producer

References

"Live at Jazz Standard Awards". AllMusic. Archived from the original on March 14, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
Murphy, Sean (5 August 2010). "Sue Mingus and the Mingus Big Band: Letting Our Children Hear Music". PopMatters. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
"Mingus Big Band – Live at Jazz Standard". Discogs. Retrieved 13 March 2017.

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Discography
Studio albums	The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus Jazz Composers Workshop Pithecanthropus Erectus The Clown East Coasting Mingus Three A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry Mingus Ah Um Blues & Roots Mingus Dynasty Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus Pre-Bird Mingus Oh Yeah Tijuana Moods Money Jungle The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Tonight at Noon Mingus Plays Piano Blue Bird Pithycanthropus Erectus Let My Children Hear Music Mingus Moves Changes One Changes Two Three or Four Shades of Blues His Final Work Cumbia & Jazz Fusion Something Like a Bird Charles Mingus with Orchestra Reincarnation of a Lovebird
Live albums	Mingus at the Bohemia (1956) Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959) The Complete Town Hall Concert (1962) The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1963) Astral Weeks (1964) Town Hall Concert (1964) Revenge! (1964) The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (1964) Mingus in Europe Volume I (1964) Mingus in Europe Volume II (1964) Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964) Mingus at Monterey (1964) My Favorite Quintet (1965) Music Written for Monterey 1965 (1965) Charles Mingus Sextet In Berlin (1970) Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972) Mingus at Antibes (1974) Mingus at Carnegie Hall (1974) Cornell 1964 (2007)
Books	Beneath the Underdog (1971 autobiography)
Related	Mingus Big Band Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard Mingus Dynasty Sue Mingus Jazz at Massey Hall (1953) Weary Blues (1958) Newport Rebels (1960) Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1964) Mingus (1979) Epitaph (1990) Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968 Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (1998 documentary)

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