On June 3rd, 1989, the Alice Tully Hall at New York's Lincoln Center was the venue for the world premiere performance of Charles Mingus' masterpiece "Epitaph". Conductor Gunther Schuller directed 30 musicians in what the New York Times described as "One of the most memorable jazz events of the decade". The piece had been discovered after Mingus' death in 1979 and painstakingly restored and copied. It is the largest and longest piece for jazz orchestra ever written and is now available here on DVD for the first time.
DIE KOMPLETTE ORCHESTERBESETZUNG
DIRIGENT: Gunther Schuller
TROMPETE: Randy Brecker, Wynton Marsalis, Lew Soloff, Jack Walrath, Joe Wilder, Snooky Young
POSAUNE: Eddie Bert, Sam Burtis, Paul Faulise, Urbie Green, David Taylor, Britt Woodman
TUBA: Don Butterfield
ALTSAXOPHON: John Handy, Jerome Richardson, Bobby Watson
TENORSAXOPHON: George Adams, Phil Bodner
BARITONSAXOPHON: Gary Smulyan, Roger Rosenberg
KONTRABASS-KLARINETTE: Dale Kleps
FAGOTT: Michael Rabinowitz
PIANO: Sir Roland Hanna, John Hicks
BASS: Reggie Johnson, Edwin Schuller
GITARRE: John Abercrombie
VIBRAPHON: Karl Berger
SCHLAGZEUG: Victor Lewis
PERCUSSIONS: Daniel Druckman
Tracklist:
1. Introduction
2. Main score (Part 1)
3. Percussion discussion
4. Main score (Part 2)
5. Started melody
6. The soul
7. Ballad (In other words, I am three)
8. Moods in mambo
9. Self portrait / Chill of death
10. O.P (Oscar Pettiford)
11. Please don't come back from the moon
12. Monk, bunk & vice versa (Osmotin)
13. Peggy's blue skylight
14. Wolverine blues
15. The children's hour of dream
16. Freedom
17. Interlude (The underdog rising)
18. Better get it in your soul
19. Noon light
20. Main score (Reprise)
Format: PAL, Sprache: Englisch, Region: Alle Regionen, Bildformat: 4:3, Sound-Format: Dolby Digital Stereo
FSK: Ohne Altersbeschränkung
Gesamtspielzeit: ca. 131 min.
Released 2009.