Charles Mingus Mingus Dynasty LP 1960 Early Pressing CS 8236 ST DG 6 Eye

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Charles Mingus Mingus Dynasty LP  1960 Early Pressing CS 8236 ST DG 6 Eye Archival Sleeve
I've always thought of this and Ah Um as a double album both masterpieces Far Wells Mill Valley is my favorite
Early Stereo pressing: deep groove / six-eye labels, without "CBS". 
Recorded Nov.1 1959: Diane / Song with Orange / Gunslinging Bird / Far Wells, Mill Valley / New Now, Know How.
Recorded Nov. 13, 1959: Slop / Things Ain't What They Used To Be / Mood Indigo / Put Me In That Dungeon.

Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on Columbia Records in May 1960. It is a companion album to his 1959 record Mingus Ah Um, and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The title alludes to Mingus's ancestry, which was partially Chinese.

Mingus Ah Um catapulted Charles Mingus from a much-discussed semi-underground figure to a near-universally accepted and acclaimed leader in modern jazz. Perhaps that's why his Columbia follow-up, Mingus Dynasty, is often overlooked in his canon -- it's lost in the shadow of its legendary predecessor, Mingus Dynasty is an excellent album; in fact, it's a testament to just how high a level Mingus was working on that an album of this caliber could have gotten lost in the shuffle. There's a definite soundtrack quality to a great deal of the music here, and indeed the majority of Mingus' originals here were composed for film and television scores and an expanded, nine- to ten-piece group. On some pieces, Mingus refines and reworks territory he'd previously hit upon. "Slop," for example, is another gospel-inflected 6/8 stormer, composed for a TV production that requested a piece similar to "Better Get It in Your Soul." The ferocious "Gunslinging Bird" follows a similar pattern, and it's the same piece whose full title, "If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats," is given elsewhere. There are a couple of numbers from the Ellington songbook that both feature cellos -- "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" and a fantastic, eight-minute "Mood Indigo" -- and a couple of pieces that rely on the even more tightly orchestrated approach of Mingus' pre-Pithecanthropus Erectus days -- "Far Wells, Mill Valley" and the atonal but surprisingly tender and melodic "Diane."