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CHARLES MINGUS - MINGUS AH UM 50TH ANNIVERSARY LEGACY EDITION (2CD)

Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um 50th Anniversary Legacy Edition On 2 x CD

Charles Mingus’ 1959 Columbia sessions were both a summation of his diverse work up to that point and a bold step forward, for it was the year when at last he had the opportunity to sign with a major label and work with an old friend and musical collaborator, Teo Macero at Columbia Records. There was no stopping this incredible musical mind who’d found his voice as a bassist, composer and bandleader. The bands that Mingus assembled at Columbia’s 30th Street studio in May and November of ‘59 consisted of the greatest exponents of his music to date, featuring sidemen Jimmy Knepper, John Handy, Booker Ervin, Horace Parlan and Dannie Richmond. These 1959 sessions, which resulted in Mingus Ah Um and Mingus Dynasty, introduced several classics that would become evergreens in the bassist’s repertoire and jazz standards for the rest of us: “Better Git It In Your Soul,” “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” and “Fables Of Faubus” plus homages to jazz greats Ellington (“Open Letter To Duke”), with whom Mingus is most frequently (and fairly) compared for the vastness, depth and diversity of his recordings, and Morton (“Jelly Roll”), jazz’s first great composer.

The Mingus Ah Um Legacy Edition collects on 2 CDs what can be singled out as the definitive Mingus, not only a stand out in perhaps jazz’s greatest year, but also music that had a seminal influence on jazz and rock thinking in the ‘60s and beyond. Features over 2 1/2 hours of music including Mingus Ah Um and its sequel Mingus Dynasty in their entirety plus four bonus tracks from the sessions and three alternative takes. All of the masters were beautifully remixed in 24 Bit on a vintage Presto all-tube three-track tape machine. The set is rounded out with a bonus digital booklet with previously unseen Columbia memos and correspondences, shedding light on how the recordings were conceived and realized.

Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um 50th Anniversary Legacy Edition

Disc 1 - Mingus Ah Um
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
Mingus Ah Um Bonus Tracks
10. Pedal Point Blues
11. GG Train
12. Girl Of My Dreams
Mingus Ah Um Alternative Takes
13. Bird Calls

Disc 2 - Mingus Ah Um Alternative Takes Continued
1. Better Git It In Your Soul
2. Jelly Roll
Mingus Dynasty
3. Slop *
4. Diane
5. Song With Orange *
6. Gunslinging Bird *
7. Things Ain’t What They Used To Be *
8. Far Wells, Mill Valley *
9. New Now, Know How
10. Mood Indigo
11. Put Me In That Dungeon
Mingus Dynasty Bonus Track
12. Strollin’ (Nostalgia In Times Square)

* original LP version was edited