Tijuana Moods

Charlie Mingus
Tijuana Moods

© 2001 BMG Entertainment
Bluebird 09206-63840-2

2 Compact Discs

Tracks

Disc 1:
1. Dizzy Moods (5:49) (Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie)
2. Ysabel's Table Dance (10:26)
3. Tijuana Gift Shop (3:50)
4. Los Mariachis (10:17)
5. Flamingo (5:33) (Edmund Anderson-Ted Grouya)
6. Dizzy Moods (composite alternate take) (8:23)
7. Ysabel's Table Dance (composite alternate take) (13:07)
8. Los Mariachis (composite alternate take) (12:28)
9. Flamingo (alternate take) (6:43)
Disc 2:
1. Tijuana Gift Shop (alternate take) (4:43)
2. A Colloquial Dream [Scenes in the City] (10:56)
3. Flamingo (composite alternate take) (7:06)
4. Ysabel's Table Dance (composite alternate take) (11:43)
5. Dizzy Moods (breakdown) (1:35)
6. Dizzy Moods (bass solos) (0:48)
7. Tijuana Gift Shop (breakdowns) (7:11)
8. Tijuana Gift Shop (solos edited out of master take) (1:22)
9. Los Mariachis (4:29)
10. Los Mariachis (9:05)
11. Los Mariachis (14:54)
12. A Colloquial Dream (breakdown) (0:33)
13. A Colloquial Dream (breakdown) (3:22)
All compositions by Charles Mingus unless otherwise noted

Personnel

Clarence Shaw - trumpet
Shafi Hadi aka Curtis Porter - alto sax, tenor sax (Disc 1: 1,6 and Disc 2: 5,6)
Jimmy Knepper - trombone
Bill Triglia - piano
Charles Mingus - bass, vocal (Disc 1: 4,8 and Disc 2: 11)
Dannie Richmond - drums
Frankie Dunlop - castanets (Disc 1: 2,7 and Disc 2: 6), tambourine, additional voices (possibly, Disc 2: 2,10-14)
Ysabel Morel - vocal, handclaps (Disc 1: 2,7 and Disc 2: 6)
Lonnie Elder - narration (Disc 2: 2,10-14)

Information

Date and location

Disc 1: 1,2,4,6,7,8 and Disc 2: 3,5,6,9-11: July 18, 1957, RCA Victor's Studio A, New York City
Disc 1: 3,5,9 and Disc 2: 1,2,4,7,8,12,13: August 6, 1957, RCA Victor's Studio A, New York City

Total time

Disc 1: 77:07
Disc 2: 79:51

Original issues

Disc 1, 1-5: RCA Victor LSP-2533 (1962)
Disc 1, 6-9 and Disc 2, 1: Bluebird 5635-1-RB (1986) as "New Tijuana Moods"
Disc 2, 2: RCMJ-68969-2 (1999), "RCA Victor 80th Anniversary: The First Label in Jazz"
Disc 2, 13: RCA (France) 74321749992 (2000) "Tijuana Moods The Complete Edition"
Disc 2, 3-13: previously unissued as such

Producer

Bob Rolontz

Engineer

Bob Simpson

Liner notes

Charles Mingus, Ben Young and Brian Priestley

See also