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Mingus Dynasty

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Released
  
April 11, 1960

Label
  
Columbia CL 1440

Artist
  
Charles Mingus

Producer
  
Teo Macero

Awards
  
Grammy Hall of Fame

Length
  
59:34 CD reissue

Mingus Dynasty (1960)
  
Pre Bird (1960)

Release date
  
1959

Genre
  
Post-bop

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Recorded
  
November 1 and 13, 1959 CBS 30th Street Studio, New York City

Similar
  
Charles Mingus albums, Post-bop albums, Other albums

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Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 for Columbia Records. It is the companion album to his other 1959 record Mingus Ah Um and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The album title references the Ming Dynasty and harkens to Mingus' Chinese ancestry. Tracks 1, 3, 4 and 5 would be originally released in their incomplete form, otherwise they wouldn't fit into a single LP. They were first released in their unedited form only in 1979 on vinyl, and in 1999 on CD. The cuts amount to about 8 minutes.

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Charles Mingus except where noted.

  1. "Slop" - 6:16
  2. "Diane" - 7:32
  3. "Song With Orange" - 6:50
  4. "Gunslinging Bird" (Originally titled "If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats") - 5:14
  5. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington) - 7:36
  6. "Far Wells, Mill Valley" - 6:14
  7. "New Now Know How" - 4:13
  8. "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington) - 8:13
  9. "Put Me in That Dungeon" - 2:53
  10. "Strollin'" aka "Nostalgia in Times Square" (Mingus, George Gordon) Bonus track on CD - 4:33

Personnel

  • John Handy - alto sax
  • Booker Ervin – tenor sax
  • Benny Golson - tenor sax (2, 3, 4, 6, 10)
  • Jerome Richardson - baritone sax (2, 3, 4, 6, 10), flute (2)
  • Richard Williams - trumpet (2, 3, 4, 6, 10)
  • Don Ellis - trumpet (1, 5, 8, 9)
  • Jimmy Knepper – trombone
  • Roland Hanna - piano (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9)
  • Nico Bunink - piano (7, 10)
  • Charles Mingus - bass
  • Dannie Richmond – drums
  • Teddy Charles - vibes (2, 3, 4, 6)
  • Maurice Brown - cello (2, 9)
  • Seymour Barab - cello (2, 9)
  • Honi Gordon - vocals (10)

    • 50th Anniversary Legacy Edition

    In 2009 Sony's Legacy Recordings released a special 2-disc 50th Anniversary Edition of Mingus's seminal 1959 album Mingus Ah Um that also includes Mingus Dynasty in its entirety on the second disc.

    Songs

    1Slop4:41
    2Diane7:32
    3Song With Orange4:17

    References

    Mingus Dynasty Wikipedia
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