The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach

The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach
Live album by Charles Mingus
Released	1964
Recorded	December 23, 1955
Venue	Café Bohemia
Genre	Jazz
Length	43:02
Label	Debut (Prestige, Fantasy); America
Charles Mingus chronology

The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach is an album by Charles Mingus, recorded at the Café Bohemia in December 1955 and released in 1964. Further recordings from the concert were released under the title Mingus at the Bohemia.

Reception

In his review for AllMusic, Ron Wynn awarded the album 4 stars stating "The Mingus/Roach/Mal Waldron dialogs overcome the ordinary stylings of Eddie Bert and George Barrow."^[1]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Track listing

"A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:36
"Drums" (Charles Mingus, Max Roach) - 5:38
"Haitian Fight Song" (Mingus) - 5:27
"Lady Bird" (Tadd Dameron) - 5:58
"I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) - 13:13
"Love Chant" (Mingus) - 7:26

The actual melody of "I'll Remember April" is not played

Personnel

George Barrow - tenor sax
Eddie Bert - trombone
Mal Waldron - piano
Charles Mingus - bass
Willie Jones - drums (except 5)
Max Roach - drums (tracks 2 and 5)

References

1 2 Wynn, R. Allmusic Review accessed July 12, 2011

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[Allmusic-1] 1 2 Wynn, R. Allmusic Review accessed July 12, 2011

Charles Mingus
Studio albums	The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus Jazz Composers Workshop Pithecanthropus Erectus The Clown East Coasting Mingus Three A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry Weary Blues Mingus Ah Um Blues & Roots Mingus Dynasty Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus Mingus Revisited Mingus Oh Yeah Tijuana Moods Money Jungle The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Mingus Plays Piano Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Tonight at Noon Blue Bird Pithycanthropus Erectus Let My Children Hear Music Mingus Moves Changes One Changes Two Three or Four Shades of Blues His Final Work Cumbia & Jazz Fusion Something Like a Bird Charles Mingus with Orchestra Reincarnation of a Lovebird
Live albums	Mingus at the Bohemia (1955) The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1955) Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959) Mingus at Antibes (1960) The Complete Town Hall Concert (1962) Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy Cornell 1964 (1964) Astral Weeks (1964) Town Hall Concert (1964) Revenge! (1964) The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (1964) Mingus in Europe Volume I (1964) Mingus in Europe Volume II (1964) Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964) Mingus at Monterey (1964) My Favorite Quintet (1965) Music Written for Monterey 1965 (1965) Charles Mingus Sextet In Berlin (1970) Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972) Mingus at Carnegie Hall (1974)
Books	Beneath the Underdog (1971 autobiography)
Related	Discography Mingus Big Band Mingus Dynasty Sue Mingus Jazz at Massey Hall (1953) Weary Blues (1958) Newport Rebels (1960) Money Jungle (1962) Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1964) Mingus (1979) Epitaph (1990) Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968 Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (1998 documentary) Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard

Max Roach
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (1953) Max Roach + 4 (1956) Jazz in 3/4 Time (1956–57) The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (1957–58) Award-Winning Drummer (1958) Booker Little 4 and Max Roach (1958) MAX (1958) Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene (1958) Max Roach + 4 at Newport (1958) Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble (1958) Deeds, Not Words (1958) Moon Faced and Starry Eyed (with Abbey Lincoln, 1959) Quiet as It's Kept (1959) Rich Versus Roach (and Buddy Rich, 1959) The Many Sides of Max (1959) Long as You're Living (1960) Parisian Sketches (1960) We Insist! (1960) Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961) It's Time (1962) Money Jungle (and Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, 1962) Speak, Brother, Speak! (1962) The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan (and Hasaan Ibn Ali, 1964) Drums Unlimited (1965) Members, Don't Git Weary (1968) Lift Every Voice and Sing (1971) Re: Percussion (M'Boom, Strata-East, 1973) Birth and Rebirth (and Anthony Braxton, 1978) Historic Concerts (and Cecil Taylor, 1979) M'Boom (1979) One in Two – Two in One (and Anthony Braxton, 1979) Pictures in a Frame (1979) The Long March (and Archie Shepp, 1979) In the Light (1982) Live at Vielharmonie (1983) Collage (M'Boom, 1984) It's Christmas Again (1984) Scott Free (1984) Survivors (1984) Easy Winners (1985) Bright Moments (1986) Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (and Dizzy Gillespie, 1989) To the Max! (1990–91)
Co-leader with Clifford Brown	Best Coast Jazz (1954) Brown and Roach Incorporated (1954) Clifford Brown All Stars (1954) Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954–55) Daahoud (1954) Jam Session (and Clark, Maynard Ferguson, 1954) Clifford Brown with Strings (1955) Study in Brown (1955) Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956)
With Sonny Rollins	Work Time (1955) Rollins Plays for Bird (1956) Saxophone Colossus (1956) Sonny Rollins Plus 4 (1956) Tour de Force (1956) Freedom Suite (1958)
With others	Witch Doctor (Chet Baker, 1953) Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars (1955) Al Cohn's Tones (1953) Birth of the Cool (Miles Davis, 1949–50) Conception (Miles Davis, Lee Konitz, 1951) Jazz Contrasts (Kenny Dorham, 1957) Paris Blues (Duke Ellington, 1961) Jam Session featuring Maynard Ferguson (1954) Diz and Getz (Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, 1953) Stan Getz and the Cool Sounds (1954) The Bop Session (Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, 1975) The Modern Touch (Benny Golson, 1957) Introducing Johnny Griffin (Johnny Griffin, 1956) Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962) Body and Soul (Coleman Hawkins, 1946) First Place (J. J. Johnson, 1957) The Magnificent Thad Jones (1956) That's Him! (Abbey Lincoln, 1957) Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln, 1961) Out Front (Booker Little, 1961) The Complete Blue Note Fifties Sessions Gil Melle, 1952) Mingus at the Bohemia (Charles Mingus, 1955) The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1955) Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 (Thelonious Monk, 1952) Brilliant Corners (Thelonious Monk, 1956) Herbie Nichols Trio (1955–56) Charlie Parker's Savoy and Dial sessions/Charlie Parker on Dial/Complete Charlie Parker on Dial (1945–48) Big Band (Charlie Parker, 1952) Oscar Pettiford Sextet (1954) The Amazing Bud Powell (1951) Pretty for the People (A.K. Salim, 1957) Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson (1949–50) Stan "The Man" Turrentine (1960) Dinah Jams (Dinah Washington, 1954) Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960)
Compilations	Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (1954–60)

Mal Waldron
Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Mal-1 (1956) Mal/2 (1957) The Dealers (1957) Mal/3: Sounds (1958) Just Wailin' (1958) Mal/4: Trio (1958) Left Alone (1959) Impressions (1959) The Quest (1961) Sweet Love, Bitter (1967) Ursula (1969) Free at Last (1969) Tokyo Bound (1970) Tokyo Reverie (1970) Blood and Guts (1970) Spanish Bitch (1970 The Opening (1970) Mal: Live 4 to 1 (1970) The Call (1971) First Encounter (1971) Number Nineteen (1971) Black Glory (1971) Mal Waldron Plays the Blues (1971) Signals (1971) Journey Without End (1971) Blues for Lady Day (1972) A Little Bit of Miles (1972) Jazz a Confronto 19 (1972) A Touch of the Blues (1972) Mal Waldron on Steinway (1972) Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet (1972) The Whirling Dervish (1972) Meditations (1972) Up Popped the Devil (1973) Hard Talk (1974) Moods (1977) Mingus Lives (1979) Mal 81 (1981) Live at Dreher, Paris 1981 (1981) What It Is (1981) One Entrance, Many Exits (1982) In Retrospect (1982) Breaking New Ground (1983) Mal Waldron Plays Eric Satie (1983) You and the Night and the Music (1983) Encounters (1984) Dedication (1985) Sempre Amore (1986) Left Alone '86 (1986) Update (1986) The Git Go – Live at the Village Vanguard (1986) The Seagulls of Kristiansund (1986) Our Colline's a Treasure (1987) Remembering the Moment (1987) The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil (1987) Mal, Dance and Soul (1987) Evidence (1988) Art of the Duo (1988) No More Tears (For Lady Day) (1988) Crowd Scene (1989) Where Are You? (1989) Quadrologue at Utopia (1989) More Git' Go at Utopia (1989) Spring in Prague (1990) Hot House (1990) I Remember Thelonious (1992) My Dear Family (1993) Waldron-Haslam (1994) After Hours (1994) Communiqué (1994) Mal, Verve, Black & Blue (1994) Two New (1995) Silence (with David Murray, 2001)
With Gene Ammons	Jammin' with Gene (1956) Funky (1957) Jammin' in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons (1957) The Big Sound (1958) Groove Blues (1958) Velvet Soul (1962) Angel Eyes (1962) Sock! (1962)
With Jackie McLean	4, 5 and 6 (1956) Jackie's Pal (1956) Jackie McLean & Co. (1957) Makin' the Changes (1957) A Long Drink of the Blues (1957) Strange Blues (1957) McLean's Scene (1957)
With Charles Mingus	Jazz Composers Workshop (1954) Mingus at the Bohemia (1955) The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1955) Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) Blues & Roots (1959)
With the Prestige All Stars	Baritones and French Horns (aka, Dakar, 1957) Four Altos (1957) Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors (1957) The Prestige Jazz Quartet (1957) Wheelin' & Dealin' (1957)
With others	All Night Long (Kenny Burrell, 1956) Earthy (Kenny Burrell, 1957) 2 Guitars (Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Raney, 1957) Where? (Ron Carter, 1961) The Teddy Charles Tentet (1956) Coolin' (Teddy Charles, 1957) Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette (John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette, 1957) Coltrane (1957) Dakar (John Coltrane, Pepper Adams & Cecil Payne, 1957) At the Five Spot (Eric Dolphy, both volumes, 1961) Tuba Sounds (Ray Draper, 1957) Hornful of Soul (aka, Catwalk, Bennie Green, 1960) Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport (1957) Lady in Satin (Billie Holiday, 1958) So Warm (Etta Jones, 1961) After Hours (Thad Jones, 1957) Olio (Thad Jones, 1957) Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk (1958) Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln, 1961) Teo (Teo Macero, 1957) On the Sunny Side (Paul Quinichette, 1957) Percussion Bitter Sweet (Max Roach, 1961) It's Time (Max Roach, 1962) Speak, Brother, Speak! (Max Roach, 1962) For Lady (Webster Young, 1957)