WEIRD NIGHTMARE (MEDITATIONS ON MINGUS)
COMPOSERS
- Ref. U 8164
- COLUMBIA COMPACT (SME), 1992.
Hommage à la musique du contrebassiste/compositeur Charles Mingus exécutée sur les instruments singuliers conçus par le compositeur Harry Partch. (BB)
Instruments created by composer Harry Partch & used in this record: Cloud chamber bowls, marimba eroica, diamond marimba, chromelodeon II, harmonic canon, surrogate kithara, cone gongs.
Interprètes
- Art BARON : Tuba, Recorder, Percussion, Flûte, Didjeridu, Trombone
- Francis THUMM : Percussion
- Bill FRISELL : Percussion, Guitare
- Don ALIAS : Bass marimba, Percussion, Congas
- Gary LUCAS : Slide guitar, Guitare
- Michael BLAIR : Percussion, Bass marimba, Drums, Congas
- Greg COHEN : Guitare, Percussion, Contrebasse
- Henry THREADGILL : Flûte
- Marc RIBOT : Banjo, Percussion
- Robbie ROBERTSON : Voix
- OTHERS: SAME AS FIRST 7 MUSICIANS
- Elvis COSTELLO : Percussion, Voix
- Vernon REID : Guitare
- Geri ALLEN : Piano
- Don BYRON : Clarinette, Clarinette basse
- UPTOWN HORNS (THE):
- Hollywood Paul LITTERAL : Trompette
- Bob FUNK : Trombone
- Crispin CIOE : Saxophone alto
- Arno HECHT : Saxophone ténor
- CHUCK D : Voix
- Bill FRISELL (SOLO) : Guitare
- Hal WILLNER : Percussion, Effets sonores
- Bobby PREVITE : Castagnettes, Spoons, Kazoo
- Tony TRISCHKA : Banjo
- Bob STEWART : Tuba
- Barry MITTERHOFF : Guitare, Mandoline
- Susan EVANS : Washboard, Spoons, Percussion
- Kenny KOSEK : Violon
- Howard LEVY : Harmonica
- Hubert SELBY JR : Voix
- Chuck LEAVELL : Piano
- Keith RICHARDS : Voix, Guitare
- Charlie WATTS : Drums
- Bobby KEYES : Saxophone ténor
- THE UPTOWN HORNS
- Bernard FOWLER : Voix
- Diamanda GALÁS : Voix
- Leonard COHEN : Voix
- Robert QUINE : Keyboards, Guitare
- Ray DAVIES : Voix
- DR.JOHN : Voix
Pistes
- 1 Canon, pt.1
- 2 Mediations on integration
- 3 Canon, pt.2
- 4 Jump Monk
- 5 Weird nightmare
- 6 Work song
- 7 Self-portrait in 3 colours
- 8 Purple heart
- 9 Tonight at noon
- 10 Gunslinging Bird (or if Charlie Parker were a gunslinger, there'd be awhole lot of dead copycats)
- 11 Weird nightmare interlude
- 12 Reincarnation of a lovebird*Haitianfight song montage
- 13 Open letter to Duke
- 14 The shoes of the fisherman's wife are some jive ass slippers
- 15 Oh Lord, don't let them drop that atomic bomb on me
- 16 Eclipse
- 17 Pithecanthropus erectus
- 18 Freedom
- 19 Weird nightmare (Reprise)