The Complete 1959 CBS Charles Mingus Sessions

Tracklist

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

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Release credits

• Benny Golson
  tenor saxophone [3-7]
• Booker Ervin
  tenor saxophone
• Charles Mingus
  double bass, piano [6]
• Dannie Richmond
  drums (drum set)
• Don Ellis
  trumpet [3-6]
• Floris Nico Bunink
  piano [3.5, 4.1-2]
• Honi Gordon
  vocal [5]
• Horace Parlan
  piano [2.1-7, 1.1-6, 3.1-2]
• Jerome Richardson
  baritone saxophone [3-5], flute [6-7]
• Jimmy Knepper
  trombone [3.3-7, 2.1-2, 1.1-2, 1.4-6, 4.1-6]
• John Handy
  alto saxophone [4.1-6, 1.1-4, 1.6, 3.1, 3.3-7, 2.1-7], clarinet [5], tenor saxophone [2]
• Maurice Brown
  cello [3-4]
• Richard Williams
  trumpet [3-4, 6-7]
• Seymour Barab
  cello [3-4]
• Shafi Hadi
  alto saxophone [1.3, 2.1-4, 2.7], tenor saxophone [2.5-6, 3.1, 1.1-2, 1.4-6]
• Teddy Charles
  vibraphone [3-4, 6-7]
• Teo Macero
  producer
• Willie Dennis
  trombone [3.1, 2.4-7]
• “Sir” Roland Hanna
  piano [3.3-4, 3.6-7, 4.3-6]
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Issues

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  The Complete 1959 CBS Charles Mingus Sessions

  4x 12" Vinyl
  1993