Mingus Ah Um

Tracklist

• CD 1: Mingus Ah Um
• 1
  Better Git It in Your Soul
  7:22
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
  5:43
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Boogie Stop Shuffle
  5:00
• 4
  Self‐Portrait in Three Colors
  3:04
• 5
  Open Letter to Duke
  5:50
• 6
  Bird Calls
  6:19
• 7
  Fables of Faubus
  8:12
• 8
  Pussy Cat Dues
• 9
  Jelly Roll
  6:15
• 10
  Pedal Point Blues
  6:27
• 11
  GG Train
  4:38
• 12
  Girl of My Dreams
  4:08
• 13
  Bird Calls (alt tk)
  4:54
• Enhanced CD 2: Mingus Dynasty
• 1
  Better Git It in Your Soul (alt tk)
  8:06
• 2
  Jelly Roll (alt tk)
  6:41
• 3
  Slop
  6:12
• 4
  Diane
  7:28
• 5
  Song With Orange
  6:50
• 6
  Gunslinging Bird
  5:12
• 7
  Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
  7:37
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Far Wells, Mill Valley
  6:12
• 9
  New Now, Know How
  4:08
• 10
  Mood Indigo
  8:14
• 11
  Put Me in That Dungeon
  2:52
• 12
  Strollin’ (Nostalgia in Times Square)
  4:33

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Release credits

• Benny Golson
  tenor saxophone [6, 12]
• Booker Ervin
  tenor saxophone [1.1-12, 2.1, 2.3, 2.6-7, 2.9-12]
• Charles Mingus
  double bass [1.1-12, 2.1, 2.3, 2.6-7, 2.9-12], piano [10]
• Dannie Richmond
  drums (drum set) [1.1-12, 2.1, 2.3, 2.6-7, 2.9-12]
• Don Ellis
  trumpet [3, 7, 10-11]
• Floris Nico Bunink
  piano [9, 12]
• Honi Gordon
  vocal [12]
• Horace Parlan
  piano [2.1, 1.1-12]
• Jerome Richardson
  baritone saxophone [6, 12]
• Jimmy Knepper
  trombone [1.1, 1.7-10, 2.1, 2.3, 2.6-7, 2.9-12]
• John Handy
  alto saxophone [1.1, 1.3-7, 1.9-12, 2.1, 2.3, 2.6-7, 2.9-12], clarinet [8], tenor saxophone [2]
• Maurice Brown
  cello [3, 11]
• Richard Williams
  trumpet [6]
• Seymour Barab
  cello [3, 11]
• Shafi Hadi
  alto saxophone [5-6, 9, 12], tenor saxophone [2.1, 1.1, 1.3-4, 1.7-8, 1.10-11]
• Teddy Charles
  vibraphone [6]
• Teo Macero
  producer [1.1-12, 2.1, 2.3, 2.6-7, 2.9-12]
• Willie Dennis
  trombone [3-5, 11-12]
• “Sir” Roland Hanna
  piano [3, 6-7, 10-11]
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Issues

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  12" Vinyl (original stereo release)
  1959
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  12" Vinyl (Original mono release)
  1959
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  12" Vinyl (I ♥ Jazz vinyl reissue with alternative cover)
  1983
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  CD (First cd issue)
  1987
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  12" Vinyl
  1987
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  12" Vinyl (Quiex 200g vinyl remastered reissue)
  1995
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  CD
  1 March 1997
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  CD
  1998
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  SACD
  8 February 1999
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  CD (20 bit remaster (?) with 3 bonus tracks and 3 unedited tracks)
  9 February 1999
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  CD
  16 February 1999
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  CD ("Discbox Slider" paper sleeve)
  2007
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  12" Vinyl (Late Columbia vinyl reissue)
  16 September 2008
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  CD, Enhanced CD (50th anniversary 2 disc edition (bundles Mingus Dynasty))
  2009
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  CD, Enhanced CD (Disc 1 Matrix: 88697480102RD1, I721601)
  2009
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  2x Digital Media (legacy edition)
  2009
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  2x CD
  January 2010
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  CD
  26 March 2010
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  2x Vinyl (2 disc set, 45 RPM, 180 gram audiophile vinyl edition)
  2012
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  12" Vinyl
  2015
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  12" Vinyl (Jazz At 33⅓ rpm #11)
  2016
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  Hybrid SACD (CD layer), Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, 2 channels)
  19 June 2019
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  2x 12" Vinyl (remastered on 180g "SuperVinyl" at 45 rpm)
  3 March 2020
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  12" Vinyl, CD
  2 July 2021
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  Digital Media (DSD256)
  2022
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  CD
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  Digital Media (bonus track version)
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  CD
  2025
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