01 INTRODUCTION ET PRESENTATION 듣기02 GOOD BYE PORK PIE HAT 듣기03 MEDITATION FOR INTEGRATION 듣기04 SOPHISTICATED LADY 01 ORANGE WAS THE COLOUR OF HER DRESS 듣기02 PARKER IANA 듣기03 FABLE OF FAUBUS The Great Concert (Paris 1964)CD2 discsUPC: 3229265000724The widely heralded European tour by the Charles Mingus Sextet didn"t come to a crashing halt because of the sudden collapse of trumpeter Johnny Coles due to a perforated ulcer in the early part of the group"s April 17th concert. Mingus simply took a day off to reassign Coles" parts to the other musicians and returned to the stage on the 19th. The bassist had one of his finest bands, with Eric Dolphy (who was to die suddenly in Berlin not long after the tour ended) on bass clarinet, flute, and alto sax; Clifford Jordan on tenor sax; pianist Jaki Byard, and drummer Dannie Richmond. The music within this two-CD set previously appeared as a three-LP set, but there are some changes in this reissue. Although the music is the same, it has been re-sequenced and the fade-outs between record sides have been removed due to the larger music capacity of the CD; although some of the leader"s comments to the audience and tuning between numbers have been edited out. The liner notes by the producer of the concert explains that Byard"s opening solo of "Art Tatum, Fats Waller, Y-O-U" was omitted due to technical problems with one of the microphones; otherwise, the second concert is complete. What isn"t explained is that the opening number, "So Long Eric" (which is still misidentified as "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"!), is actually a version edited from both concerts, as Coles is strangely missing from the finale of the piece. This toe-tapping blues is an excellent feature for the vastly underrated (and under-recorded) trumpeter. Although all tracks but "Sophisticated Lady" are rather long, there is absolutely no filler in this outstanding release, which is one of the most essential recordings