Charlie Mingus ?– Pre-Bird [LP 1960] Jazz, Post Bop Vinyl, Mercury ?– MG 20627
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Description
[Vinyl looks NM- (near mint minus) and Sleeve looks EX]
Charlie Mingus ?– Pre-Bird
Label:
Mercury ?– MG 20627
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Mono, 12", 33rpm, Album, 33rpm
Country:
US
Released:
1960
Genre:
Jazz
Style:
Post Bop
Tracklist
A1 Take The "A" Train Written-By – William Thomas Strayhorn 3:34
A2 Prayer For Passive Resistance Written-By – Charles Mingus 3:49
A3 Eclipse
Vocals – Booker Ervin, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Knepper, Joe Farrell, Paul Bley, Ted Curson, Yusef LateefWritten-By – Charles Mingus 3:45
A4 Mingus Fingus No. 2 Written-By – Charles Mingus 3:22
A5 Weird Nightmare Written-By – Charles Mingus 3:35
B1 Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
Written-By – Bob Russell, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington 3:33
B2 Bemoanable Lady
Written-By – Charles Mingus 4:22
B3 Half-Mast Inhibition
Conductor – Gunther Schuller, Percussion – Max Roach, Written-By – Charles Mingus 8:12
Credits
Alto Saxophone – Eric Dolphy, John LaPorta (tracks: A4, B2, B3)
Baritone Saxophone – Danny Bank (tracks: A4, B2, B3)
Bass – Charles Mingus
Cello – Charles McCracken (tracks: A4, B2, B3)
Conductor – Gunther Schuller (tracks: B3)
Drums – Dannie Richmond (tracks: A1 toA4, B1 to B3)
Flute – Robert DiDomenica (tracks: A4, B2, B3)
Liner Notes – Martin Williams (6)
Oboe – Harry Schulman* (tracks: A4, B2, B3)
Percussion – George Scott (3) (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Sticks Evans (tracks: A4, B2, B3)
Piano – Paul Bley (tracks: A1, A3, A5), Sir Roland Hanna* (tracks: A4, B1, B2, B3)
Producer – Leonard Feather
Tenor Saxophone – Bill Barron (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Booker Ervin (tracks: A1, A2, A3, A5, B1), Joe Farrell, Yusef Lateef
Trombone – Charles Greenlee (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Eddie Bert (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Jimmy Knepper, Slide Hampton (tracks: A4, B2, B3)
Trumpet – Clark Terry (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Hobart Dotson (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Marcus Belgrave (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Richard Williams (tracks: A4, B2, B3)
Tuba – Don Butterfield (tracks: A4, B2, B3)
Vocals – Lorraine Cusson* (tracks: A3, A5)
Notes
Recorded May 24, 1960 were tracks A4, B2 & B3. Recorded May 25 1960 were tracks A1, A2, A3, A5, & B1.
"Take the "A" Train" interpolates "Exactly Like You" (Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields).
"Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" interpolates "I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart" (Duke Ellington-Henry Nemo-John Redmond).
Both sessions were recorded in New York City on Ampex tape recorders at 15 inches per second.
Front cover of sleeve is laminated.
- Charles Mingus
Real Name:
Charles Mingus Jr.
Profile:
American jazz musician, composer, bandleader and civil rights activist, born April 22, 1922 in Nogales, Arizona, USA and died January 5, 1979 in Cuernavaca, Mexico of Lou Gehrig's disease. A forerunner in double bass technique, he also pioneered in overdubbing and in cutting up and reassembling tapes of different takes in the studio to achieve the best possible version to put on record. He also authored an autobiographical novel called "Beneath The Underdog".
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