Tonight at Noon (album)

Tonight at Noon is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus compiling tracks recorded at two sessions, one in 1957 from the sessions that produced The Clown and the other in 1961 which produced the album Oh Yeah, that was released on the Atlantic label in 1965.^[1] The tracks have since been added to the CD re-releases of their respective albums as bonus tracks.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 3 stars stating "While the former session features Mingus going for the blues via European harmonics and melodic approaches with hard bop tempos (particularly on the title track), the latter session with its nocturnal elegance and spatial irregularities comes off more as some kind of exercise in vanguard Ellington with sophisticated harmonies that give way to languid marches and gospel-tinged blues... Despite the fact that this is an assembled album, it holds plenty of magic nonetheless".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Charles Mingus

1. "Tonight at Noon" - 6:00
2. "Invisible Lady" - 4:51
3. ""Old" Blues for Walt's Torin" - 7:57
4. "Peggy's Blue Skylight" - 9:46
5. "Passions of a Woman Loved" - 9:47

• Recorded at Atlantic Studios in New York City on March 13, 1957 (tracks 1 & 5) and November 6, 1961

Personnel

• Charles Mingus - bass, piano, vocals
• Jimmy Knepper - trombone
• Shafi Hadi (tracks 1 & 5), Booker Ervin (tracks 2-4) - tenor saxophone
• Roland Kirk - tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, siren, flute (tracks 2-4)
• Wade Legge - piano (tracks 1 & 5)
• Doug Watkins - bass (tracks 2-4)
• Dannie Richmond - drums

References