Tonight at Noon (album)

Tonight at Noon is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus that was released on the Atlantic label in 1964. It compiles tracks recorded at two sessions – the 1957 sessions that produced The Clown and the 1961 sessions that produced the album Oh Yeah.^[2] These 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".^[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Charles Mingus

"Tonight at Noon" – 6:00
"Invisible Lady" – 4:51
""Old" Blues for Walt's Torin" [aka "Roland Kirk's Message"]– 7:57
"Peggy's Blue Skylight" – 9:46
"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

↑ Liner notes to the remastered version of Oh Yeah
↑ Charles Mingus discography accessed June 10, 2011
1 2 Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed June 10, 2011

Charles Mingus

Studio albums	Jazz Composers Workshop (1954–55) The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus (1955) Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) The Clown (1957) Mingus Three (1957) East Coasting (1957) A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry (1957) Mingus Ah Um (1959) Mingus Dynasty (1959) Blues & Roots (1960) Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (1960) Mingus (1960) Reincarnation of a Lovebird (1960) Oh Yeah (1961) Tonight at Noon (1957/61) Tijuana Moods (1962) The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963) Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (1963) Mingus Plays Piano (1964) Charles Mingus in Paris: The Complete America Session (1970) Charles Mingus with Orchestra (1971) Let My Children Hear Music (1972) Mingus Moves (1973) Changes One (1974) Changes Two (1975) Three or Four Shades of Blues (1977) Cumbia & Jazz Fusion (1978)

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) 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 and Friends in Concert (1972) Mingus at Carnegie Hall (1974)

Related	Discography Mingus Big Band Mingus Dynasty Sue Mingus Jazz at Massey Hall (1953) Weary Blues (1958) Newport Rebels (1960) Money Jungle (1962) Mingus (1979) Epitaph (1990) Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968 Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (1998 documentary)

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