Charles Mingus Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus © 1987 DA-Music/Black Lion Records Candid CD 9005 Compact Disc

For once, in these sessions, everyone in a Mingus unit reached - and maintained - that level of daring and that power to make their instruments become extensions of themselves.

Nat Hentoff (from liner notes)

Tracks

1. Folk Forms, No. 1 (12:00)
2. Original Faubus Fables (9:15)
3. What Love (15:20)
4. All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother (8:32)

   All compositions by Charles Mingus

Personnel

• Ted Curson - trumpet
• Eric Dolphy - alto sax, bass clarinet
• Charles Mingus - bass
• Dannie Richmond - drums

Information

Date and location

October 20 (Priestley) or November 19 (liner notes), 1960, Nola Penthouse Sound Studios, New York City

Total time

46:29

Original issue (year)

Candid 9005 (1960)

Reissues (year)

• Barnaby Records BR 5012 (19??)
• Candid TECW-20549 [Japan] (2001?, CD, Hi-Bit-Hyper Mastering)

Producer

Nat Hentoff

Engineer

Bob d'Orleans

Liner notes

Nat Hentoff

See also

• Mingus