Charles Mingus

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Heard together, Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus and Pre Bird suggest the enormity of Charles Mingus’ artistic vision. No one album encompasses it in its entirety, and perhaps not even two or three. However, these recordings, made six months apart in 1960, vividly summarized his work to date, as he headed towards to jazz’s pantheon.- Bill Shoemaker

PERSONNEL, TRACKS & DATES:

• Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
• Eric Dolphy - (alto saxophone, bass clarinet)
• Ted Curson - (trumpet)
• Charles Mingus - (double bass)
• Dannie Richmond - (drums)

• 01 Folk Forms, No. 1
• 02 Original Faubus Fables
• 03 What Love
• 04 All The Things You Could
• Be By Now If Sigmund Freud’s
• Wife Was Your Mother

• Recorded New York City, October 20, 1960.
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• Pre Bird
• Charles Mingus - (double bass); Eric Dolphy - (alto saxophone, bass clarinet & flute on tracks 5 to 12); John LaPorta - (alto saxophone) (tracks 8, 11, 12); Danny Bank - (baritone saxophone) – (tracks 8, 11, 12); Charles McCracken - (cello) (tracks 8, 11, 12); Gunther Schuller - (conductor) (tracks 12); Dannie Richmond - (drums) (tracks 5 to 8, 10 to 12); Robert DiDomenica - (flute) (tracks 8, 11, 12); Harry Schulman - (oboe) (tracks 8, 11, 12); George Scott - (percussion) (tracks 8, 11, 12); Sticks Evans - (percussion) (tracks 8, 11, 12); Max Roach - (percussion) (track 12; Paul Bley - (piano) (tracks: 5, 7, 9); Sir Roland Hanna - (piano) (tracks 8, 11 & 12); Bill Barron - (tenor saxophone) (tracks: 8, 11, 12); Booker Ervin - (tenor saxophone) (tracks: 5 to 7, 9, 10); Joe Farrell - (tenor saxophone) tracks 5 to 12); Yusef Lateef - (tenor saxophone) (tracks 5 to 12): Charles Greenlee - (trombone) (tracks: 8, 11, 12); Eddie Bert - (trombone) (tracks: 8, 11, 12); Jimmy Knepper - (trombone) (tracks 5 to 12); Slide Hampton - (trombone) (tracks: 8, 11, 12); Clark Terry - (trumpet) (tracks: 8, 11, 12); Ted Curson - (trumpet) (tracks 5 to 12); Hobart Dotson - (trumpet) (tracks: 8, 11, 12); Marcus Belgrave - (trumpet) (tracks: 8, 11, 12); Richard Williams - (trumpet) (tracks: 8, 11, 12); Don Butterfield - (tuba) (tracks: 8, 11, 12); Lorraine Cusson - (vocals) (tracks: 7, 9); Booker Ervin, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Knepper, Joe Farrell, Paul Bley, Ted Curson, Yusef; Lateef - (vocals (track 7)
• 05 Take The “A” Train
• 06 Prayer For Passive Resistance
• 07 Eclipse
• 08 Mingus Fingus No. 2
• 09 Weird Nightmare
• 10 Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
• 11 Bemoanable Lady
• 12 Half-Mast Inhibition

• Recorded in New -York City on May 24, 1960, tracks 8,11, 12
• and May 25, 1960 tracks 5, 6, 7, 9, 10.