Eight Classic Albums

Tracklist

• CD 1: Mingus Three / Charles Mingus Quartet and Max Roach
• 1
  Yesterdays
  4:15
• 2
  Back Home Blues
  5:31
• 3
  I Can't Get Started
  6:31
• 4
  Hamp's New Blues
  3:54
• 5
  Summertime
  4:40
• 6
  Dizzy Moods
  6:54
• 7
  Laura
  6:33
• 8
  A Foggy Day

  The Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach
  5:37
• 9
  Drums

  The Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach
  5:38
• 10
  Haitian Fight Song

  The Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach
  5:27
• 11
  Lady Bird

  The Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach
  5:58
• 12
  I'll Remember April

  The Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach
  10:18
• 13
  Love Chant

  The Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach
  6:59
• CD 2: The Clown / East Coasting
• 1
  Haitian Fight Song
  12:03
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• 2
  Blue Cee
  7:58
• 3
  Reincarnation of a Lovebird
  8:34
• 4
  The Clown
  12:25
• 5
  Memories of You (take 7)
  4:27
• 6
  East Coasting (take 4)
  5:12
• 7
  West Coast Ghost (take 6)
  8:56
• 8
  Celia (take 5)
  7:05
• 9
  Conversation (take 16)
  5:28
• 10
  Fifty-First Street Blues (take 4)
  5:45
• CD 3: Mingus at the Bohemia / Pithecanthropus Erectus
• 1
  Jump Monk
  6:53
• 2
  Serenade in Blue
  6:02
• 3
  Percussion Discussion
  8:36
• 4
  Work Song
  6:26
• 5
  Septemberly
  7:04
• 6
  All the Things You C# Minor
  6:55
• 7
  Pithecanthropus Erectus
  10:35
• 8
  A Foggy Day
  7:48
• 9
  Profile of Jackie
  3:09
• 10
  Love Chant
  14:53
• CD 4: Jazzical Moods, Volume 1 / Mingus in Wonderland
• 1
  What Is This Thing Called Love
  8:08
• 2
  Stormy Weather
  3:17
• 3
  Minor Intrusion
  10:12
• 4
  Abstractions
  4:14
• 5
  Nostalgia in Times Square
  12:18
• 6
  I Can't Get Started
  10:08
• 7
  No Private Income Blues
  12:51
• 8
  Alice's Wonderland
  8:54

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Modern Jazz Archive: Charles Mingus

Modern Jazz Archive: Charles Mingus 2004

West Coast 1945-49

West Coast 1945-49 2000

Pithecanthropus Erectus: 1955-1957

Pithecanthropus Erectus: 1955-1957 1999

Passions of a Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1956–1961)

Passions of a Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1956–1961) 1997

Release credits

• Bill Evans
  piano [5-10]
• Booker Ervin
  tenor saxophone [5-7]
• Charles Mingus
  bass [1-4, 6-7], double bass [2.1-10, 3.1, 3.1-3, 3.3-10, 4.1-8, 1.1-5, 1.5-7, 1.10], piano [3]
• Clarence Shaw
  trumpet [5-10]
• Clem DeRosa
  drums (drum set) [1-4], tambourine [1-4]
• Curtis Porter
  alto saxophone [1-4], tenor saxophone [4]
• Dannie Richmond
  drums (drum set) [2.1-10, 1.1-7, 4.5-8]
• Eddie Bert
  trombone [1-2, 4-6]
• George Barrow
  tenor saxophone [1-2, 4-6]
• Hal Lustig
  recording [7-10]
• Hampton Hawes
  piano [1-7]
• J. R. Monterose
  tenor saxophone [7-10]
• Jackie McLean
  alto saxophone [7-10]
• Jackson Wiley
  cello [1-4]
• Jean Shepherd
  spoken vocals [4]
• Jimmy Knepper
  trombone [1-10]
• John Handy
  alto saxophone [5-8]
• John LaPorta
  alto saxophone [1-4], arranger [3], clarinet [1]
• Mal Waldron
  piano [1-2, 4-10]
• Max Roach
  drums (drum set) [3], guest [3]
• Nesuhi Ertegun
  producer [7-10]
• Richard Wyands
  piano [5-8]
• Shafi Hadi
  alto saxophone [1-3], saxophone [5-10], tenor saxophone [4]
• Teo Macero
  tenor saxophone [1-4]
• Thad Jones
  trumpet [1-4]
• Tom Dowd
  recording [7-10]
• Wade Legge
  piano [1-4]
• Willie Jones
  drums (drum set) [1-2, 4-10]
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Issues

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  Eight Classic Albums

  4x CD
  2010