Description
Label Review.
1957 session with bonus tracks.
Our Overview.
The Poll Winners series: classic albums reviewed in the legendary Downbeat magazine. Originally awarded 4 stars by Downbeat Mag.
The complete original album ‘East Coasting’, featuring an all-star group with Jimmy Knepper, Bill Evans, Clarence Shaw and Curtis Porter, plus all existing alternate takes from the date.
As a bonus, Mingus’ superb ‘Revelations’, recorded a couple of months earlier - the only other collaboration that Mingus and Evans ever made. Also included are two long standards from the October 1957 session by Mingus’ Jazz Workshop.
Includes 16-page booklet with rare photos and the original as well as updated liner notes.
Tracklisting:
1. Memories Of You 2. East Coasting 3. West Coast Ghost 4. Celia 5. Conversation 6. Fifty-First Blues 7. East Coasting (Alternative Take) 8. Memories Of You (Alternative Take) 9. Revelations 10. Woody’N You 11. Billie’s Bounce