The Complete Town Hall Concert

The Complete Town Hall Concert is a live album by the American jazz musician Charles Mingus released on Blue Note label 1994.

[2] The concert was conceived as a "live workshop" of newly composed music which would be recorded for release by United Artists but rescheduling, lack of rehearsal time, poor sound and interruptions led to the event and subsequent album being considered a disaster.

[3] Much of the music intended for the performance was finally realized by conductor Gunther Schuller in a concert in 1989 as Epitaph.

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "Charles Mingus's Town Hall Concert has long been considered a famous fiasco, and the original United Artists LP (which contained just 36 minutes of music and did not bother identifying the personnel) made matters worse.

"[4] The English rock band Radiohead cited The Complete Town Hall Concert as a major influence on their 2000 album Kid A.