Pre-Bird

Tracklist

• 1
  Take the “A” Train
  3:34
• 2
  Prayer for Passive Resistance
  3:49
• 3
  Eclipse
  3:45
• 4
  Mingus Fingus No. 2
  3:22
• 5
  Weird Nightmare
  3:35
• 6
  Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me (interpolation: I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart)
  3:33
• 7
  Bemoanable Lady
  4:22
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Half-Mast Inhibition
  8:12

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Release credits

• Bill Barron
  saxophone [4, 7-8]
• Charles Greenlee
  trombone [4, 7-8]
• Charles McCracken
  cello [4, 7-8]
• Charles Mingus
  double bass
• Clark Terry
  trumpet [4, 7-8]
• Dannie Richmond
  drums (drum set)
• Danny Bank
  saxophone [4, 7-8]
• Don Butterfield
  tuba [4, 7-8]
• Eddie Bert
  trombone [4, 7-8]
• Eric Dolphy
  alto saxophone [4, 7-8], flute [1-3, 5-6]
• George Scott
  percussion [4, 7-8]
• Gunther Schuller
  conductor [8]
• Harry Schulman
  oboe [4, 7-8]
• Hobart Dotson
  trumpet [4, 7-8]
• Jimmy Knepper
  trombone
• Joe Farrell
  tenor saxophone
• John LaPorta
  saxophone [4, 7-8]
• Leonard Feather
  liner notes, producer
• Lorraine Cusson
  vocal [3, 5]
• Marcus Belgrave
  trumpet [4, 7-8]
• Paul Bley
  piano [1-3, 5-6]
• Richard Williams
  trumpet [4, 7-8]
• Robert DiDomenica
  flute [4, 7-8]
• Slide Hampton
  trombone [4, 7-8]
• Sticks Evans
  percussion [4, 7-8]
• Ted Curson
  trumpet
• Yusef Lateef
  flute [1-3, 5-6], tenor saxophone
• “Sir” Roland Hanna
  piano
• Show all credits (28)

Issues

• 

  P
  Pre-Bird

  12" Vinyl
  1961
• M
  Mingus Revisited

  CD
  1986
• 

  P
  Pre Bird

  CD
  1989
• M
  Mingus Revisited

  CD
  1990
• 

  P
  Pre-Bird

  CD
  17 February 1999
• P
  Pre-Bird

  12" Vinyl (remastered, 180g vinyl)
  29 September 2023
• M
  Mingus Revisited

  CD
• 

  M
  Mingus Revisited

  CD ("jazz the Verve Collection" obscure reissue)
• 

  M
  Mingus Revisited

  CD
• 

  M
  Mingus Revisited

  CD
• P
  Pre-Bird

  12" Vinyl