Mingus Dynasty

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ReleasedMay 1960[1][2][3]
RecordedNovember 1 and 13, 1959
StudioCBS 30th Street Studio, New York City
GenreJazz
Mingus Dynasty
Studio album by
Charles Mingus
ReleasedMay 1960[1][2][3]
RecordedNovember 1 and 13, 1959
StudioCBS 30th Street Studio, New York City
GenreJazz
Length59:34
LabelColumbia
ProducerTeo Macero
Charles Mingus chronology
Blues & Roots
(1960)		 Mingus Dynasty
(1960)		 Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
(1961)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarHalf star[4]
Down Beat
(Original LP release)		StarStarStarStar[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz RecordingsStarStarStar[6]

Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on Columbia Records in May 1960.[1][2][3] 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, a pun on the Ming dynasty, alludes to Mingus's ancestry, which was partially Chinese.[7]

Tracks one, three, four, and five were released in their unedited form in 1979 on vinyl and in 1999 on CD. The cuts amount to about eight minutes.[8]

All compositions by Charles Mingus except where noted.

  1. "Slop" – 6:16
  2. "Diane" – 7:32
  3. "Song With Orange" – 6:50
  4. "Gunslinging Bird" (Originally titled "If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats") – 5:14
  5. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington) – 7:36
  6. "Far Wells, Mill Valley" – 6:14
  7. "New Now, Know How" – 4:13
  8. "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington) – 8:13
  9. "Put Me in That Dungeon" – 2:53
  10. "Strollin'" (Originally titled "Nostalgia in Times Square") (Mingus, George Gordon) – 4:33 [Bonus track on CD]

Personnel

50th Anniversary Legacy Edition

References

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