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?
3:05
2
Darn That Dream
3:42
3
Yesterdays
3:09
4
Body and Soul
3:37
5
Blue Moon
3:37
6
Blue Tide
3:14
7
Darn That Dream (alternate take)
3:41
8
Jeepers Creepers (take 1)
3:41
9
Jeepers Creepers (take 2)
3:07
10
Portrait (take 1) (alternate take)
3:14
11
Portrait (take 2)
3:14
12
I've Lost My Love (take 1)
3:04
13
I've Lost My Love (take 2)
3:05
14
Extrasensory Perception
2:51
15
Extrasensory Perception (alternate take)
2:46
16
Precognition
2:47
17
Make Believe
3:07
18
Paris in Blue
3:16
19
Montage
2:54
20
Day Dream (take 1)
3:45
21
Day Dream (take 2)
2:43
22
Theme From "Rhapsody in Blue" (take 1)
3:28
23
Theme From "Rhapsody in Blue" (take 2)
2:40
CD 2
1
Jet (take 1)
2:48
2
Jet (take 2)
2:38
3
Medley: You Go to My Head
2:45
4
Can You Blame Me
2:51
5
You and Me
2:51
6
Bebopper
2:43
7
Cupid
2:50
8
Drum Conversation
4:41
9
I've Got You Under My Skin
3:01
10
Embraceable You
4:23
11
Sure Thing
2:11
12
Cherokee
4:54
13
(Jubilee) Hallelujah
3:58
14
Lullaby of Birdland
2:32
15
Wee (Allen's Alley)
6:47
16
Hot House
9:10
17
A Night in Tunisia
8:10
CD 3
1
Perdido
8:16
2
Salt Peanuts
7:37
3
All the Things You Are
7:13
4
52nd Street Theme
0:44
5
Perdido
7:43
6
Salt Peanuts
7:40
7
All the Things You Are
7:11
8
52nd Street Theme
0:37
9
Wee (Allen's Alley)
6:42
10
Hot House
9:12
11
A Night in Tunisia
7:35
CD 4
1
Bass-ically Speaking (take 1)
4:03
2
Bass-ically Speaking (take 2)
3:53
3
Bass-ically Speaking (take 3)
3:54
4
Bass-ically Speaking
4:03
5
[untitled blues]
2:38
6
Wee Dot (Blues for Some Bones)
14:24
7
Stardust
5:01
8
Move
6:56
9
I'll Remember April
11:12
10
Now's the Time
14:27
CD 5
1
Trombosphere
3:27
2
Ow!
15:19
3
Chazzanova (false start of Yesterdays)
4:59
4
Yesterdays
10:42
5
Kai's Day
5:30
6
Pink Topsy
3:07
7
Miss Blues
3:06
8
Blue Tide
3:12
9
Pink Topsy (alternate take)
3:43
10
Eclipse (alternate take)
3:01
11
Eclipse
2:57
12
Opus One (alternate take)
3:25
13
Opus One
4:12
14
(Teapot) Walkin'
4:30
CD 6
1
Like Someone in Love
4:08
2
I Can't Get Started
3:41
3
Spontaneous Combustion
4:19
4
The Theme
3:43
5
Split Kick
3:07
6
This Time the Dream's on Me
3:10
7
Zootcase
2:35
8
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
3:38
9
The Pendulum at Falcon's Lair
4:44
10
Jack the Fieldstalker
4:34
11
Stockholm Sweetnin'
4:15
12
Low and Behold
3:30
13
Bitty Ditty
5:16
14
Chazzanova
3:45
15
I'll Remember April
3:51
16
Elusive (Illusive)
4:54
17
Sombre Intrusion
2:49
18
You Don't Know What Love Is
3:30
CD 7
1
Like Someone in Love
3:51
2
Peace of Mind
4:06
3
Lament
4:47
4
The Jeep Is Jumpin'
4:00
5
Git Up From There
4:30
6
A Foggy Day
6:08
7
Mountain Greenery
4:48
8
Git Up From There (alternate take)
4:00
9
Lament (alternate take)
5:02
10
One More
7:33
11
I Can't Get Started
6:10
12
More of the Same
5:16
13
Get Out of Town
8:48
14
One More (alternate take)
4:01
CD 8
1
Get Out of Town (alternate take)
7:34
2
Ensenada
5:30
3
Machajo
4:06
4
Cherokee
4:21
5
Seven Moons
4:07
6
Seven Moons (alternate take)
4:22
7
All the Things You Are (take 1)
5:31
8
All the Things You Are (take 2)
4:16
9
Cherokee (alternate take)
5:15
10
Nature Boy
6:16
11
Alone Together
7:18
12
There's No You
8:07
13
Easy Living
5:03
CD 9
1
The Edge of Love
2:51
2
Makin' Whoopee
2:42
3
Fanny
3:05
4
Portrait
2:50
5
Jump Monk
6:53
6
Serenade in Blue
6:05
7
Percussion Discussion
8:39
8
Work Song
6:28
9
Septemberly
7:05
10
All the Things You C#
6:57
11
I'll Remember April
13:14
CD 10
1
Love Chant
7:35
2
A Foggy Day
5:33
3
Drums
5:34
4
Haitian Fight Song
5:24
5
Lady Bird
6:00
6
Jump Monk [spoken introduction and false start of "All the Things"]
12:12
7
All the Things You Do [spoken introduction and false start of "Drums"]
10:51
8
Drums (take 1)
6:35
9
Drums (take 2)
5:40
CD 11
1
I'll Remember April (alternate take)
13:57
2
A Foggy Day (alternate take)
5:38
3
A Portrait of Bud Powell
4:30
4
Haitian Fight Song (alternate take)
5:25
5
Love Chant (alternate take)
8:19
6
Lady Bird (alternate take)
5:56
7
What Is This Thing Called Love? (fragment)
2:34
8
Latter Day Saint
4:04
9
Cunningbird
4:50
10
The Jumpin' Blues (Jump the Blues Away)
4:57
11
The Masher
3:37
12
Latter Day Saint (take 1)
5:26
13
Latter Day Saint (take 2)
3:47
CD 12
1
The Masher (alternate take)
4:19
2
Latter Day Saint
3:55
3
[untitled original blues] (take 1)
3:59
4
Stella by Starlight (take 4)
4:01
5
Stella by Starlight (take 5)
3:56
6
[untitled original composition] (take 3)
5:22
7
[untitled original composition] (take 5)
4:38
8
Autumn in New York (take 1)
5:33
9
Autumn in New York (take 2)
5:09
10
Long Ago (and Far Away) (take 2)
3:28
11
Long Ago (and Far Away) (take 4)
3:15
12
Long Ago (and Far Away) (take 5)
3:21
13
[untitled original blues] (take 2)
4:04
14
Joldi (take 4)
5:28
15
Joldi (take 5)
5:13
16
[untitled percussion composition]
7:21

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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 [2.13, 3.5, 3.9, 4.1-3, 4.5]
Charles Mingus
double bass [6.7, 1.1-2, 1.4-9, 1.20-23, 2.1-2, 2.13, 9.8, 3.5, 3.9, 4.4, 5.14], piano [3]
Charlie Parker
alto saxophone [5, 9]
Dizzy Gillespie
trumpet [5, 9]
Ed Michel
producer
Eddie Bert
trombone [8]
George Barrow
tenor saxophone [8]
Mal Waldron
piano [8]
Max Roach
drums (drum set) [2.1-2, 2.13, 3.5, 3.9, 1.20-23]
Nadi Qamar
piano [1.1-2, 1.4-9, 1.20-23, 2.1-2]
Paul Bley
piano [5.14, 6.7]
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