Released April 11, 1960 Label ColumbiaCL 1440 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, 1959CBS 30th Street Studio, New York City Similar Charles Mingus albums, Post-bop albums, Other albums | ||
Charles mingus things ain t what they used to be mingus dynasty
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
- Charles mingus things ain t what they used to be mingus dynasty
- Track listing
- Personnel
- 50th Anniversary Legacy Edition
- Songs
- References
Track listing
All compositions by Charles Mingus except where noted.
- "Slop" - 6:16
- "Diane" - 7:32
- "Song With Orange" - 6:50
- "Gunslinging Bird" (Originally titled "If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats") - 5:14
- "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington) - 7:36
- "Far Wells, Mill Valley" - 6:14
- "New Now Know How" - 4:13
- "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington) - 8:13
- "Put Me in That Dungeon" - 2:53
- "Strollin'" aka "Nostalgia in Times Square" (Mingus, George Gordon) Bonus track on CD - 4:33
Personnel
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