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Charles Mingus

Complete Columbia & RCA Albums Collection

Complete Columbia & RCA Albums Collection

UPC: 886979795921

Format: CD (10 disc)

Release Date: Jul 30, 2012

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Audio Mixer: John McClure.
Liner Note Authors: Richard Seidel; Sue Mingus.
Recording information: Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY (02/04/1972); Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, NY (02/04/1972); Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, NY (02/04/1972); RCA Studio, New York (02/04/1972); Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY (05/05/1959); Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, NY (05/05/1959); Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, NY (05/05/1959); RCA Studio, New York (05/05/1959); Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY (05/12/1959); Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, NY (05/12/1959); Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, NY (05/12/1959); RCA Studio, New York (05/12/1959); Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY (06/03/1989); Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, NY (06/03/1989); Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, NY (06/03/1989); RCA Studio, New York (06/03/1989); Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY (07/18/1957); Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, NY (07/18/1957); Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, NY (07/18/1957); RCA Studio, New York (07/18/1957); Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY (08/06/1957); Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, NY (08/06/1957); Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, NY (08/06/1957); RCA Studio, New York (08/06/1957); Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY (09/23/1971-11/18/1971); Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, NY (09/23/1971-11/18/1971); Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, NY (09/23/1971-11/18/1971); RCA Studio, New York (09/23/1971-11/18/1971); Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY (11/01/1959); Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, NY (11/01/1959); Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, NY (11/01/1959); RCA Studio, New York (11/01/1959); Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY (11/13/1959); Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, NY (11/13/1959); Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, NY (11/13/1959); RCA Studio, New York (11/13/1959).
Photographer: Herb Snitzer.
The ten-disc 2012 Charles Mingus anthology The Complete Columbia & RCA Albums Collection brings together all of the legendary bassist's albums recorded for Columbia and RCA from the '50s to the '70s. Included here are 1959's Mingus Dynasty, 1959's Mingus Ah Um, 1962's Tijuana Moods, 1972's Let My Children Hear Music, and 1972's Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert. Also featured is Gunther Schuller's 1989 recording of the lengthy, 130-minute Mingus composition released in 1990 as Epitaph. There are also three discs of alternate takes from the various releases. ~ Matt Collar

Tracks:

Disc 1:
1 - Dizzy Moods
2 - Ysabel's Table Dance
3 - Tijuana Gift Shop
4 - Mariachis
5 - Flamingo
6 - Dizzy Moods [Composite Partial Alternate Take]
7 - Ysabel's Table Dance [Composite Partial Alternate Take]
8 - Mariachis [Composite Partial Alternate Take]
9 - Flamingo [Partial Alternate Take]
Disc 2:
1 - Tijuana Gift Shop [Alternate Take]
2 - Colloquial Dream (aka Scenes in the City)
3 - Flamingo [Composite Partial Alternate Take]
4 - Ysabel's Table Dance [Composite Partial Alternate Take]
5 - Dizzy's Moods [Breakdowns]
6 - Dizzy's Moods [Bass Solos]
7 - Tijuana Gift Shop [Breakdowns]
8 - Tijuana Gift Shop [Solos Edited Out of Master Take]
9 - Mariachis [False Start, Breakdowns]
10 - Mariachis [Breakdowns, False Start]
11 - Mariachis [Breakdowns, False Starts, Rehearsal]
12 - Colloquial Dream [Breakdown]
13 - Colloquial Dream [Breakdown]
Disc 3:
1 - Better Git It in Your Soul
2 - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
3 - Boogie Stop Shuffle
4 - Self-Portrait in Three Colors
5 - Open Letter to Duke
6 - Bird Calls
7 - Fables of Faubus
8 - Pussy Cat Dues
9 - Jelly Roll
10 - Pedal Point Blues
11 - GG Train
12 - Girl of My Dreams
Disc 4:
1 - Slop
2 - Diane
3 - Song with Orange
4 - Gunslinging Bird
5 - Things Ain't What They Used to Be
6 - Far Wells, Mill Valley
7 - New Now Know How
8 - Mood Indigo
9 - Put Me in That Dungeon
10 - Strollin'
Disc 5:
1 - Better Git It in Your Soul
2 - Bird Calls
3 - Jelly Roll
4 - Song with Orange
5 - Diane
6 - New Now Know How
7 - Revelations (First Movement)
8 - Non-Sectarian Blues
Disc 6:
1 - Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers
2 - Adagio Ma Non Troppo
3 - Don't Be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too
4 - Taurus in the Arena of Life
5 - Hobo Ho
6 - Chill of Death
7 - I of Hurricane Sue
Disc 7:
1 - Introduction by Bill Cosby
2 - Jump Monk
3 - E.S.P.
4 - Ecclusiastics
5 - Eclipse
6 - Us Is Two
7 - Taurus in the Arena of Life (aka Number One Grandson)
8 - Mingus Blues
9 - Introduction to Little Royal Suite
10 - Little Royal Suite
Disc 8:
1 - Introduction to Strollin'
2 - Strollin'
3 - I of Hurricane Sue
4 - E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too (aka Hora Decubitus)
5 - Ool-Ya-Koo
6 - Portrait
7 - Don't Be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too
Disc 9:
1 - Main Score, Pt. 1
2 - Percussion Discussion
3 - Main Score, Pt. 2
4 - Started Melody
5 - Better Get It in Your Soul
6 - Soul
7 - Moods in Mambo
8 - Self Portrait/Chill of Death
9 - O.P. (Oscar Pettiford)
10 - Please Don't Come Back from the Moon
Disc 10:
1 - Monk, Bunk & Vice Versa (Osmotin')
2 - Peggy's Blue Skylight
3 - Wolverine Blues
4 - Children's Hour Of Dream
5 - Ballad (In Other Words, I Am Three)
6 - Freedom
7 - Interlude (The Underdog Rising)
8 - Noon Night
9 - Main Score Reprise