East Coasting is an album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...

, recorded and released in 1957. It was reissued on CD with bonus takes in 1993.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow is an American jazz commentator, known for many contributions to the Allmusic website, for writing ten books on jazz and for reviewing jazz recordings for over 30 years.-Biography:...

 awarded the album 4 stars stating "One of Charles Mingus's lesser-known band sessions, this set of five of his originals (plus the standard "Memories of You") features his usual sidemen of the period (trombonist Jimmy Knepper, trumpeter Clarence Shaw, Shafi Hadi on tenor and alto and drummer Dannie Richmond) along with pianist Bill Evans. The music stretches the boundaries of bop, is never predictable and, even if this is not one of Mingus's more acclaimed dates, it is well worth acquiring for the playing is quite stimulating.".

Track listing

1. "Memories of You
   Memories of You
   "Memories of You" is a popular song with lyrics written by Andy Razaf and music composed by Eubie Blake and published in 1930.-Song history:The song was introduced by singer Minto Cato in the Broadway show Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930...
   
   " [Take 7] (Eubie Blake
   Eubie Blake
   James Hubert Blake was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, Blake and long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans...
   
   , Andy Razaf) - 4:27
2. "East Coasting" [Take 4] - 5:13
3. "West Coast Ghost" [Take 6] - 10:28
4. "Celia" [Take 5] - 7:54
5. "Conversation" [Take 16] - 5:28
6. "Fifty-First Street Blues" [Take 4] - 5:48
7. "East Coasting" [alternate take] - 5:30
8. "Memories of You" [alternate take] (Blake, Razaf) - 4:42

All compositions by Charles Mingus except as indicated.

Recorded August 16, 1957 in Cincinnati, OH.

Personnel

• Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
  
   – bass
• Clarence Shaw
  Clarence Shaw
  Clarence Eugene Shaw, sometimes credited as Gene Shaw was an American jazz trumpeter....
  
   - trumpet
• Jimmy Knepper
  Jimmy Knepper
  James M. Knepper was an American jazz trombonist.He was a good friend and arranging/transcribing partner of bassist and composer Charles Mingus. Knepper was twice on the receiving end of Mingus' legendary temper...
  
   - trombone
• Shafi Hadi - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Bill Evans
  Bill Evans
  William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...
  
   - piano
• Dannie Richmond
  Dannie Richmond
  Dannie Richmond was an American drummer who was best known among jazz fans for his work with Charles Mingus, and among pop fans for his work with Joe Cocker, Elton John and Mark-Almond....
  
  - drums