Charles Mingus The Complete Candid Recordings Of Charles Mingus (C)(P) 1989 Mosaic Records Mosaic MD3-111 3 Compact Discs

Tracks

• Disc 1: The Quartet
  1. Folk Forms No. 1 (13:01)
  2. Original Faubus Fables (aka Faubus Of Fables) (9:03)
  3. What Love? (15:19)
  4. All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother (8:33)
  5. Stormy Weather (13:23) (Arlen)
  6. Melody From The Drums (9:21) (Richmond)
• Disc 2: The Ensemble
  1. Reincarnation Of A Lovebird No. 1 (9:17)
  2. Vasserlean (aka Weird Nightmare) (6:36)
  3. MDM (19:07)
  4. Bugs (8:25)
  5. Reincarnation Of A Lovebird (6:55)
  6. Lock 'Em Up (6:41)
• Disc 3: The Eldridge Session
  1. Mysterious Blues (8:35)
  2. Body And Soul (13:45) (Green)
  3. Body And Soul (alternate) (10:45)
  4. R & R (11:48) (Eldridge/Brown)
  5. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (3:48) (Moll/Koehler/Barris)
  6. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (alternate) (3:50)
  7. Me And You (9:52) (Eldridge/Mingus/Flanagan/Jones)

  All compositions by Charles Mingus unless otherwise noted

Personnel

• Disc 1 (1-5):
  • Ted Curson - trumpet
  • Eric Dolphy - alto sax, bass clarinet, flute
  • Charles Mingus - bass
  • Dannie Richmond - drums
• Disc 1 (6):
  • Dannie Richmond - drums
• Disc 2 (1-3):
  • Ted Curson - trumpet
  • Lonnie Hillyer - trumpet
  • Eric Dolphy - alto sax, bass clarinet, flute
  • Charles McPherson - alto sax
  • Booker Ervin - tenor sax except on 1
  • Jimmy Knepper - trombone
  • Britt Woodman - trombone on 3
  • Nico Bunink - piano
  • Charles Mingus - bass
  • Dannie Richmond - drums
• Disc 2 (4-6):
  • Ted Curson - trumpet except on 4
  • Lonnie Hillyer - trumpet
  • Eric Dolphy - alto sax, bass clarinet, flute except on 4
  • Charles McPherson - alto sax
  • Booker Ervin - tenor sax
  • Paul Bley - piano
  • Charles Mingus - bass
  • Dannie Richmond - drums
• Disc 3:
  • Roy Eldridge - trumpet
  • Jimmy Knepper - trombone on 1-4
  • Eric Dolphy - alto sax, bass clarinet, flute on 1-4
  • Tommy Flanagan - piano
  • Charles Mingus - bass
  • Jo Jones - drums

Information

Date and location

• Disc 1 and disc 2 (1-3): October 20, 1960, New York City
• Disc 2 (4-6) and disc 3: November 11, 1960, New York City

Original issue (year)

• Disc 1 (1-4) as Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Candid 9005)
• Disc 1 (5) and disc 2 (3, 6) as Mingus (Candid 9021)
• Disc 2 (2) and disc 3 (4) as "The Jazz Life" (Candid 9019)
• all others except disc 3 (3, 6) on the 4LP issue MR4-111 in 1985. Disc 3 (3, 6) originally issued as part of this 3CD set (they were not issued on the 4LP sessions because they were found only later by accident on tape reels marked as by Cal Massey).

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