The Complete 1959 Columbia Recordings

Tracklist

• CD 1: Mingus Ah Um
• 1
  Better Git It in Your Soul
  7:23
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
  5:44
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Boogie Stop Shuffle
  5:02
• 4
  Self-Portrait in Three Colors
  3:10
• 5
  Open Letter to Duke
  5:51
• 6
  Bird Calls
  6:17
• 7
  Fables of Faubus
  8:13
• 8
  Pussy Cat Dues
  9:14
• 9
  Jelly Roll
  6:17
• 10
  Pedal Point Blues
  6:30
• 11
  GG Train
  4:39
• 12
  Girl of My Dreams
  4:08
• CD 2: Mingus Dynasty
• 1
  Slop
  6:16
• 2
  Diane
  7:32
• 3
  Song With Orange
  6:47
• 4
  Gunslinging Bird
  5:12
• 5
  Things Ain't What They Used to Be
  7:35
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Far Wells, Mill Valley
  6:11
• 7
  New Now Know How
  4:12
• 8
  Mood Indigo
  8:12
• 9
  Put Me in That Dungeon
  2:51
• 10
  Strollin'
  4:33
• CD 3: Alternate Takes
• 1
  Better Git It in Your Soul (alternate)
  8:30
• 2
  Bird Calls (alternate)
  4:53
• 3
  Jelly Roll (alternate)
  6:41
• 4
  Song With Orange (alternate)
  6:42
• 5
  Diane (alternate)
  7:29
• 6
  New Now Know How (alternate)
  4:19

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Release credits

• Benny Golson
  tenor saxophone [2.2-4, 2.6, 2.10, 3.4-5]
• Booker Ervin
  tenor saxophone
• Charles Mingus
  double bass, piano [10]
• Dannie Richmond
  drums (drum set)
• Don Ellis
  trumpet [1, 5, 8-9]
• Floris Nico Bunink
  piano [3.6, 2.7, 2.10]
• Honi Gordon
  vocal [10]
• Horace Parlan
  piano [3.1-3, 1.1-12]
• Jerome Richardson
  baritone saxophone [3.4-5, 2.3-4, 2.10], flute [2, 6]
• Jimmy Knepper
  trombone [1.1, 1.7-10, 3.1, 3.3-6, 2.1-10]
• John Handy
  alto saxophone [1.1, 1.3-7, 1.9-12, 2.1-10, 3.1-6], clarinet [8], tenor saxophone [2]
• Maurice Brown
  cello [1, 9]
• Richard Williams
  trumpet [2.2-4, 2.6, 3.4-5]
• Seymour Barab
  cello [1, 9]
• Shafi Hadi
  alto saxophone [3.2-3, 1.5-6, 1.9, 1.12], tenor saxophone [1.1, 1.3-4, 1.7-8, 1.10-11, 3.1]
• Teddy Charles
  vibraphone [3.4-5, 2.2-4, 2.6]
• Teo Macero
  producer
• Willie Dennis
  trombone [3-5, 11-12]
• “Sir” Roland Hanna
  piano [2.1-6, 2.8-9, 3.4-5]
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Issues

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  The Complete 1959 Columbia Recordings

  3x CD
  1998
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  The Complete 1959 Columbia Recordings

  3x CD (Euro release)
  1998