A straight reissue of the RLR label's collection of Mingus broadcasts (reviewed in Jazzwise 150). The variable sound of these seven airshots makes them more suitable for specialists than casual fans, but there's a lot of fascinating music. For example, live versions of most of the tunes from the studio album Oh Yeah! that was done two weeks after this first broadcast (which incidentally has Kirk in his only other documentation with Mingus and, contrary to the details here, sees Lateef on tenor rather than flute). But we also have the only live ‘Ysabel’s Table Dance' (with both Mingus and Henry Grimes on basses, and done because the Tijuana Moods album was just being released for the first time in 1962); a live ‘Fables Of Faubus’; and versions of several tunes otherwise only known from the Complete Town Hall Concert(also 1962) and/or the Gunther Schuller realisation of Epitaph. More important perhaps than the repertoire is the chance to hear the bandleader in action, moulding performances on the fly (and sometimes from the piano) with a varying selection of his trusted allies from Charles McPherson to Booker Ervin. Not to be missed.