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 alludes to Mingus's ancestry, which was partially Chinese.[7]

Mingus Dynasty
Studio album by
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
(1960)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
Down Beat
(Original LP release)
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[6]

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]

Track listing

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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

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50th Anniversary Legacy Edition

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In 2009 Sony's Legacy Recordings released a special, two-disc 50th anniversary edition of Mingus's seminal 1959 album Mingus Ah Um that also includes Mingus Dynasty in its entirety on the second disc.[10]

References

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  1. ^ a b "19 Columbia Albums For May Release" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. 7 May 1960. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b "New and Outstanding LPs". The Billboard. The Billboard Publishing Co. 30 May 1960. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Mingus Dynasty" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. 14 May 1960. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  4. ^ Down Beat: September 15, 1960 Vol. 27, No. 19
  5. ^ Allmusic review
  6. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1002. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  7. ^ Mingus, Charles. Beneath the Underdog; His World as Composed by Mingus. New York: Knopf, 1971.
  8. ^ 2009 remastered CD liner notes
  9. ^ "Charles Mingus – Mingus Dynasty". jazzloft.com. Archived from the original on 2013-06-24. Retrieved 2012-02-14.. Accessed February 14, 2012
  10. ^ Album Review – Mingus Ah Um: Legacy Edition. Pitchfork.com. Accessed: January 11, 2009