12x CD

The Complete Debut Recordings

Compilation by Charles Mingus

Released 14 September 1990

cool jazz hard bop jazz

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
What Is This Thing Called Love?
3:02
2
Darn That Dream
3:38
3
Yesterdays
3:05
4
Body and Soul
3:34
5
Blue Moon
3:33
6
Blue Tide
3:10
7
Darn That Dream (alternate take)
3:37
8
Jeepers Creepers (take 1)
3:37
9
Jeepers Creepers (take 2)
3:03
10
Portrait (take 1) (alternate take)
3:11
11
Portrait (take 2)
3:10
12
I've Lost My Love (take 1)
3:01
13
I've Lost My Love (take 2)
3:01
14
Extrasensory Perception
2:48
15
Extrasensory Perception (alternate take)
2:42
16
Precognition
2:43
17
Make Believe
3:04
18
Paris in Blue
3:12
19
Montage
2:54
20
Day Dream (take 1)
3:42
21
Day Dream (take 2)
2:38
22
Theme From "Rhapsody in Blue" (take 1)
3:24
23
Theme From "Rhapsody in Blue" (take 2)
2:39
CD 2
1
Jet (take 1)
2:44
2
Jet (take 2)
2:35
3
Medley: You Go to My Head
2:42
4
Can You Blame Me
2:48
5
You and Me
2:47
6
Bebopper
2:40
7
Cupid
2:46
8
Drum Conversation
4:02
9
I've Got You Under My Skin
2:49
10
Embraceable You
4:18
11
Sure Thing
2:03
12
Cherokee
4:48
13
(Jubilee) Hallelujah
3:51
14
Lullaby of Birdland
2:29
15
Wee (Allen's Alley)
6:40
16
Hot House
8:58
17
A Night in Tunisia
7:22
CD 3
1
Perdido
8:10
2
Salt Peanuts
7:18
3
All the Things You Are
7:12
4
52nd Street Theme
0:38
5
Perdido
7:42
6
Salt Peanuts
7:20
7
All the Things You Are
7:10
8
52nd Street Theme
0:35
9
Wee (Allen's Alley)
6:36
10
Hot House
9:01
11
A Night in Tunisia
7:22
CD 4
1
Bass-ically Speaking (take 1)
3:58
2
Bass-ically Speaking (take 2)
3:50
3
Bass-ically Speaking (take 3)
3:51
4
Bass-ically Speaking
3:52
5
[untitled blues]
2:35
6
Wee Dot (Blues for Some Bones)
14:17
7
Stardust
4:52
8
Move
6:48
9
I'll Remember April
11:04
10
Now's the Time
14:22
CD 5
1
Trombosphere
3:24
2
Ow!
15:11
3
Chazzanova (false start of Yesterdays)
4:54
4
Yesterdays
10:04
5
Kai's Day
5:22
6
Pink Topsy
3:03
7
Miss Blues
3:03
8
Blue Tide
3:08
9
Pink Topsy (alternate take)
3:38
10
Eclipse (alternate take)
2:57
11
Eclipse
2:54
12
Opus One (alternate take)
3:21
13
Opus One
4:08
14
(Teapot) Walkin'
4:28
CD 6
1
Like Someone in Love
4:03
2
I Can't Get Started
3:37
3
Spontaneous Combustion
4:15
4
The Theme
3:40
5
Split Kick
3:05
6
This Time the Dream's on Me
3:07
7
Zootcase
2:33
8
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
3:22
9
The Pendulum at Falcon's Lair
4:40
10
Jack the Fieldstalker
4:30
11
Stockholm Sweetnin'
4:11
12
Low and Behold
3:26
13
Bitty Ditty
5:12
14
Chazzanova
3:41
15
I'll Remember April
3:48
16
Elusive (Illusive)
4:50
17
Sombre Intrusion
2:46
18
You Don't Know What Love Is
3:29
CD 7
1
Like Someone in Love
3:47
2
Peace of Mind
4:02
3
Lament
4:43
4
The Jeep Is Jumpin'
3:56
5
Git Up From There
4:26
6
A Foggy Day
6:04
7
Mountain Greenery
4:44
8
Git Up From There (alternate take)
3:56
9
Lament (alternate take)
4:56
10
One More
7:28
11
I Can't Get Started
6:05
12
More of the Same
5:12
13
Get Out of Town
8:43
14
One More (alternate take)
3:59
CD 8
1
Get Out of Town (alternate take)
7:28
2
Ensenada
5:25
3
Machajo
4:02
4
Cherokee
4:17
5
Seven Moons
4:03
6
Seven Moons (alternate take)
4:19
7
All the Things You Are (take 1)
5:27
8
All the Things You Are (take 2)
4:12
9
Cherokee (alternate take)
5:11
10
Nature Boy
6:12
11
Alone Together
7:13
12
There's No You
8:01
13
Easy Living
5:02
CD 9
1
The Edge of Love
2:48
2
Makin' Whoopee
2:38
3
Fanny
3:01
4
Portrait
2:47
5
Jump Monk
6:44
6
Serenade in Blue
5:56
7
Percussion Discussion
8:26
8
Work Song
6:16
9
Septemberly
6:55
10
All the Things You C#
6:47
11
I'll Remember April
13:03
CD 10
1
Love Chant
7:20
2
A Foggy Day
5:22
3
Drums
5:20
4
Haitian Fight Song
5:16
5
Lady Bird
5:51
6
Jump Monk [spoken introduction and false start of "All the Things"]
11:38
7
All the Things You Do [spoken introduction and false start of "Drums"]
9:45
8
Drums (take 1)
6:17
9
Drums (take 2)
5:23
CD 11
1
I'll Remember April (alternate take)
13:07
2
A Foggy Day (alternate take)
5:23
3
A Portrait of Bud Powell
4:09
4
Haitian Fight Song (alternate take)
5:17
5
Love Chant (alternate take)
8:12
6
Lady Bird (alternate take)
5:35
7
What Is This Thing Called Love? (fragment)
2:30
8
Latter Day Saint
4:00
9
Cunningbird
4:45
10
The Jumpin' Blues (Jump the Blues Away)
4:52
11
The Masher
3:33
12
Latter Day Saint (take 1)
5:22
13
Latter Day Saint (take 2)
3:46
CD 12
1
The Masher (alternate take)
4:15
2
Latter Day Saint
3:51
3
[untitled original blues] (take 1)
3:55
4
Stella by Starlight (take 4)
3:57
5
Stella by Starlight (take 5)
3:53
6
[untitled original composition] (take 3)
5:17
7
[untitled original composition] (take 5)
4:34
8
Autumn in New York (take 1)
5:29
9
Autumn in New York (take 2)
5:05
10
Long Ago (and Far Away) (take 2)
3:24
11
Long Ago (and Far Away) (take 4)
3:11
12
Long Ago (and Far Away) (take 5)
3:17
13
[untitled original blues] (take 2)
4:00
14
Joldi (take 4)
5:24
15
Joldi (take 5)
5:08
16
[untitled percussion composition]
7:18

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Release credits

Art Blakey
drums (drum set) [5.14, 6.7]
Art Taylor
drums (drum set) [4]
Billy Taylor
piano [4]
Bud Powell
piano [3.5, 3.9, 2.13, 4.1-3, 4.5]
Charles Mingus
double bass [6.7, 9.8, 1.1-2, 1.4-9, 1.20-23, 3.5, 3.9, 5.14, 2.1-2, 2.13, 4.4], piano [3]
Charlie Parker
alto saxophone [5, 9]
Dizzy Gillespie
trumpet [5, 9]
Eddie Bert
trombone [8]
George Barrow
tenor saxophone [8]
Mal Waldron
piano [8]
Max Roach
drums (drum set) [3.5, 3.9, 2.1-2, 2.13, 1.20-23]
Nadi Qamar
piano [1.1-2, 1.4-9, 1.20-23, 2.1-2]
Paul Bley
piano [6.7, 5.14]
Richard Bock
producer [1-6]
Willie Jones
drums (drum set) [8]

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The Complete Debut Recordings
12x CD
14 September 1990
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The Complete Debut Recordings
Digital Media
14 September 1990
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The Complete Debut Recordings
12x CD
1990