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Booker Evin is remembered for his big passionate "Texas Tenor" sound. His contributions to Charles Mingus' groups are memorable. He can be heard here in all his glory backed by a good rhythm section that includes the superb session drummer, Alan Dawson (all you young cats should listen to him to learn finesse!) The sound quality of the recording is superb!
When Jaki Byard was with Charles Mingus in the 1960s, audiences would laugh when, mid-solo, Byard would burst into 1920s-style stride piano — the revved-up ragtime offshoot where the left hand bounds back and forth over the lower half of the keyboard. Its archaic quality struck listeners as comic — in that avant-garde age, stride was for antiquarians. Nowadays every hip outside or inside pianist will drop a little stride science once in awhile — like… more »
