Mingus Ah Um

Mingus Ah Um

2x Digital Media (legacy edition)

Mingus Ah Um

Album by Charles Mingus

Released 1959

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Tracklist

Digital Media 1
1
Better Git It in Your Soul
7:21
5.0 ★
2
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
5:42
5.0 ★
3
Boogie Stop Shuffle
4:59
4
Self‐Portrait in Three Colors
3:08
5
Open Letter to Duke
5:49
6
Bird Calls
6:17
7
Fables of Faubus
8:13
8
Pussy Cat Dues
9:13
9
Jelly Roll
6:15
10
Pedal Point Blues
6:28
11
GG Train
4:38
12
Girl of My Dreams
4:08
13
Bird Calls (alternate)
4:54
Digital Media 2
1
Better Git It in Your Soul (alternate)
8:30
2
Jelly Roll (alternate)
6:41
3
Slop
6:14
4
Diane
7:28
5
Song With Orange
6:47
6
Gunslinging Bird
5:12
7
Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
7:35
5.0 ★
8
Far Wells, Mill Valley
6:11
9
New Now, Know How
4:12
10
Mood Indigo
8:12
11
Put Me in That Dungeon
2:51
12
Strollin’
4:33

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Release credits

Benny Golson
tenor saxophone [6, 12]
Booker Ervin
tenor saxophone [2.3, 2.6-7, 2.9-12, 1.1-12]
Charles Mingus
double bass [2.3, 2.6-7, 2.9-12, 1.1-12], piano [10]
Dannie Richmond
drums (drum set) [2.3, 2.6-7, 2.9-12, 1.1-12]
Don Ellis
trumpet [3, 7, 10-11]
Floris Nico Bunink
piano [9, 12]
Honi Gordon
vocal [12]
Horace Parlan
piano [1-12]
Jerome Richardson
baritone saxophone [6, 12]
Jimmy Knepper
trombone [1.1, 1.7-10, 2.3, 2.6-7, 2.9-12]
John Handy
alto saxophone [1.1, 1.3-7, 1.9-12, 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 [1, 3-4, 7-8, 10-11]
Teddy Charles
vibraphone [6]
Teo Macero
producer [1.1-12, 2.3, 2.6-7, 2.9-12]
Willie Dennis
trombone [3-5, 11-12]
“Sir” Roland Hanna
piano [3, 6-7, 10-11]

Issues

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