The Best of Charles Mingus

Tracklist

• 1
  Better Git in Your Soul
  7:28
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Fables of Faubus
  8:18
• 3
  Far Wells, Mill Valley
  6:15
• 4
  Bird Calls
  3:19
• 5
  Gunslinging Bird
  4:02
• 6
  Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
  4:52
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Jelly Roll
  4:04
• 8
  Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
  4:28

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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

• Benny Golson
  saxophone [5], tenor saxophone [3]
• Booker Ervin
  saxophone [5], tenor saxophone [1-4, 6-7]
• Charles Mingus
  double bass [1-7]
• Dannie Richmond
  drums (drum set) [1-7]
• Horace Parlan
  piano [1-2, 4, 6-7]
• Jerome Richardson
  flute [3, 5], saxophone [5]
• Jimmy Knepper
  trombone [1-3, 5, 7]
• John Handy
  alto saxophone [1-4, 7], saxophone [5], tenor saxophone [6]
• Richard Williams
  trumpet [3, 5]
• Shafi Hadi
  alto saxophone [4, 7], tenor saxophone [1-2]
• Teddy Charles
  vibraphone [3, 5]
• Teo Macero
  producer [1-3]
• “Sir” Roland Hanna
  piano [3, 5]

Issues

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  The Best of Charles Mingus

  Vinyl
  April 1967