Charles Mingus / Mingus Ah Um
≪カラー・ヴァイナル≫オープニングから飛び出す“Better Get It In Your Soul”から名曲ぞろい、これぞミンガスというべき、リズムとアンサンブルが飛び出す名盤。今回は鮮やかなブルーのカラー盤でリリース。
収録曲
Side A
1 Better Get It In Your Soul 7:23
2 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 5:44
3 Boogie Stop Shuffle 5:03
4 Self-Portrait In Three Colors 3:10
5 Open Letter To Duke 5:51
Side B
1 Bird Calls 6:18
2 Fables Of Faubus 8:14
3 Pussy Cat Dues 9:15
4 Jelly Roll 6:17
All compositions by Charles Mingus
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Charles Mingus, bass & leader
Jimmy Knepper, trombone (on A1 & Side B)
Willie Dennis, trombone (on A2-A5)
Booker Ervin, tenor sax
Curtis Porter (aka Shafi Hadi), alto & tenor sax
John Handy, alto & tenor sax, clarinet
Horace Parlan, piano
Dannie Richmond, drums
New York, May 5 (A1 & Side B) & May 12 (A2-A5), 1959.