Charles Mingus Catalog PDF

Charles Mingus Catalog
1945 (age 23)

Russell Jacquet - Penny's Worth Of Boogie / Look What You've Done To
Me (Globe 105)
Calvin Boaz (trumpet) Russell Jacquet (trumpet, vocals) Teddy Edwards (alto sax) Maurice
Simon (tenor sax) Arthur Dennis (baritone sax) Bill Davis (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
Chico Hamilton (drums)
Los Angeles, CA, early 1945
APP6A
Penny's Worth Of Boogie
APP6B
Look What You've Done To Me
Howard McGhee And His Orchestra 1945-1948 - McGhee Special (Jazz

Circle Basel (Swi) JCB-20)
Howard McGhee (trumpet) Teddy Edwards (tenor sax) Vernon Biddle (piano) Stanley
Morgan (guitar) Charles Mingus (bass) Nathan McFay (drums)
Hollywood, CA, May, 1945
JM2
Deep Meditation
Baron Mingus - West Coast 1945-49 (Uptown UPCD 27.48)

N.R. Bates (trumpet) Maxwell Davis, William Woodman Jr. (tenor sax) Bob Mosley (piano)
Charles Mingus (bass) Roy Porter (drums) Oradell Mitchell (vocals -1,3) Everett Pettis
(vocals -2)
Los Angeles, CA, circa June, 1945
1. CM132
The Texas Hop
2. CM133
Baby, Takes A Chance With Me
3. CM134
Lonesome Woman Blues
4. CM135
Swingin' An Echo
Karl George, John Plonsky (trumpet) Henry Coker (trombone) Jewel Grant, Willie Smith
(alto sax) Gene Porter, Lucky Thompson (tenor sax) Wilbert Baranco (piano) Buddy Harper
(guitar) Charles Mingus (bass) Lee Young (drums) Claude Trenier (vocals -1,2,4)
Los Angeles, CA, early 1946
1. OR162A Ain't Jivin' Blues
2. OR162B Baby, Take A Chance With Me
3. OR163A Shuffle Bass Boogie
4. OR163B Weird Nightmare
Herb Carol (baritone sax) Buzz Wheeler (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Warren Thompson
(drums) Herb Gayle (vocals -1)
Hollywood, CA, March or August, 1946 or 1947 or January, 1949
1. O-193
Pennies From Heaven
2. O-214
Lyon's Roar
Karl George (trumpet) Henry Coker (trombone) Marshall Royal (clarinet, alto sax) Willie
Smith (alto sax) Lucky Thompson (tenor sax) Lady Will Carr (piano) Irving Ashby (guitar)
Charles Mingus (bass) Lee Young (drums)
Los Angeles, CA, May 6, 1946
393AS
Make Believe
395AS
Bedspread
397AS-2
Pipe Dream
Buddy Collette (clarinet, alto sax) Wilbert Baranco (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) unknown
(drums)
Los Angeles, CA, circa mid 1948
Mingus Fingus (Mingus Fingers)
These Foolish Things
probably Vern Carlson (trumpet) probably Britt Woodman (trombone) unknown (tenor sax)
Wilbert Baranco (piano) Charles Mingus (bass, vocals) unknown (drums) Helen Carr (vocals
-1) possibly Wilbert Baranco (vocals -2)
Hollywood, CA, mid 1948
1. DH-300-A Say It Isn't So
2. DH-300-B Boppin' 'N Boston (Boppin' In Boston)
Charles Mingus (piano)
Ralph Manza's home, San Francisco, CA, February 10, 1949
arranging the intro to He's Gone
John Anderson, Buddy Childers, Hobart Dotson, Eddie Preston (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper,
Marty Smith, Britt Woodman (trombone) Eric Dolphy (alto sax, flute, clarinet) Jewel Grant,
Art Pepper (alto sax, clarinet) Herb Caro (tenor sax, clarinet) William Green (tenor sax,
clarinet, flute) Gene Porter (baritone sax, clarinet) Russ Freeman (piano) Red Callender,
Charles Mingus (bass) Roy Porter (drums) Johnny Berger (percussion) and others
Hollywood, CA, spring 1949
REX28002The Story Of Love
A
REX28014Inspiration, Part 1
A
REX28014Inspiration, Part 2
B
The Complete Illinois Jacquet Sessions 1945-50 (Mosaic MR6-165)

Russell Jacquet (trumpet -1, trumpet, vocals -2) John Brown (alto sax) Illinois Jacquet (tenor
sax) Arthur Dennis (baritone sax) Bill Doggett (piano) Ulysses Livingston (guitar) Charles
Mingus (bass) Al Wichard (drums)
Hollywood, CA, August 2, 1945
1. S1100-1 Jacquet Mood
2. S1101
Wondering And Thinking Of You
Russell Jacquet (trumpet) John Brown (alto sax) Illinois Jacquet (tenor sax) Arthur Dennis
(baritone sax) Bill Doggett (piano) Ulysses Livingston (guitar) Charles Mingus (bass) Al
Wichard (drums) Wynonie Harris (vocals)
S1104-3
Wynonie's Blues
S1105
Here Comes The Blues
Wichard (drums)
Hollywood, CA, circa mid August, 1945
S1113
Bottom's Up
S1113-6
S1114
Merle's Mood (Jacquet Mood)
S1114-2
Merle's Mood
S1115
What's This
Russell Jacquet (trumpet) Henry Coker (trombone) Tom Archia, Illinois Jacquet (tenor sax)
Sir Charles Thompson (piano) Ulysses Livingston (guitar) Charles Mingus or John Simmons
(bass) Johnny Otis (drums)
Los Angeles, CA, August 28, 1945
ARA1049-2 Ladies Lullaby (alternate take)
ARA1049-3 Ladies Lullaby
ARA1050-3 Illinois Stomp (Jacquet Special)
** also issued on Mosaic MD4-165.
Rex Stewart Plays Duke Ellington/Illinois Jacquet And His All-Stars Play
Uptown Jazz (Grand Award GA 33-315)
Wichard (drums)
Hollywood, CA, August 2, 1945
S1103-2
Memories Of You
same personnel
Hollywood, CA, circa mid August, 1945
S1116-3
Ghost Of A Chance
Ernie Andrews - You Go To My Head / Don't Let The Sun Catch You
Crying (Golden Guinea 1020)
Wilbert Baranco (piano) Buddy Harper (guitar) Charles Mingus (bass) Ernie Andrews
(vocals)
Los Angeles, CA, October 4, 1945
GEM20-A You Go To My Head
GEM20-B Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
Ernie Andrews - Paradise Lost / I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance (Golden

Guinea 1021)
same session
Los Angeles, CA, October 4, 1945
GEM21-A Paradise Lost
GEM21-B
I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance
Tenor Sax Of Lucky Thompson - The Beginning Years (IAJRC CD 1001)

Karl George (trumpet) Marshall Royal (alto sax, clarinet) Lucky Thompson (tenor sax) Bob
Mosley (piano) Gene Phillips (guitar) Charles Mingus (bass) Lee Young (drums) Marion
Abernathy (vocals -2,3)
Los Angeles, CA, November, 1945
1. BTJ34-3 Voot Rhythm
2. BTJ35-1 Stormy Mood
3. BTJ36-2/3 Beggin' The Boogie
4. BTJ37-5 Bee Boogie Boo
Dinah Washington Sings The Blues (Grand Award GA 33-318)

Karl George (trumpet) Jewel Grant (alto sax) Lucky Thompson (tenor sax) Gene Porter
(baritone sax, clarinet) Milt Jackson (vibes) Wilbert Baranco (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
Lee Young (drums) Dinah Washington (vocals)
Los Angeles, CA, December 10, 1945
S1170-3
Wise Woman Blues
S1173
Chewin' Woman Blues (Chewin' Mama Blues)
(baritone sax, clarinet) Milt Jackson (vibes -1,2) Wilbert Baranco (piano) Charles Mingus
(bass) Lee Young (drums) Dinah Washington (vocals)
1. S1175-1 Rich Man's Blues
2. S1176
Beggin' Woman Blues (Beggin' Mama Blues)
3. S1177
All Or Nothing Blues
(baritone sax, clarinet) Milt Jackson (vibes -1) Wilbert Baranco (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
1. S1180
Blues For A Day
2. S1181
Pacific Coast Blues
** also issued on Grand Award GA 264-SD.
Dinah Washington - Mellow Mama (Delmark DL-451)

(baritone sax, clarinet) Milt Jackson (vibes) Wilbert Baranco (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
S1171-2
Walking Blues
S1172-2
No Voot - No Boot
same personnel
S1174-2
My Lovin' Papa
same personnel
S1178
Mellow Mama Blues
S1179
My Voot Is Really Vout
** also issued on Delmark DD-451.
1946
Wilbert Baranco And His Rhythm Bombardiers - Hot Piano (Tops L 1639)
Karl George, Dizzy Gillespie, Howard McGhee, Snooky Young (trumpet) Ralph Bledsoe,
Henry Coker, Vic Dickenson, George Washington (trombone) Marvin Johnson, Willie Smith
(alto sax) Freddie Simon, Lucky Thompson (tenor sax) Gene Porter (baritone sax) Wilbert
Baranco (piano, vocals) Buddy Harper (guitar) Charles Mingus (bass) Earl Watkins (drums)
Los Angeles, CA, January, 1946
BW183-2R Night And Day
BW184-2
Weepin' Willie
BW185-2L Every Time I Think Of You
BW186-2L Baranco Boogie
Lena Horne Sings And Ivie Anderson - Lena And Ivie (Jazztone J 1262)
Karl George (trumpet) Willie Smith (alto sax) Gene Porter (tenor sax) Buddy Collette
(baritone sax) Wilbert Baranco (piano, arranger) Buddy Harper (guitar) Charles Mingus
(bass) Booker Hart (drums) Ivie Anderson (vocals)
BW203
I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
BW204
On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Ivie Anderson And Her All Stars (Storyville (E) SLP 804)
same session
BW205-1
I Thought You Ought To Know
BW206-3
The Voot Is Here To Stay
Charles Mingus - The Young Rebel (Swingtime (E) ST 1010)

Vern Carlson, Miles Davis (trumpet) Henry Coker (trombone) Boots Mussulli (alto sax)
Lucky Thompson (tenor sax) Buddy Collette (tenor sax, flute) Herb Carol (baritone sax) Buzz
Wheeler (piano) Charles Mingus (bass, cello) Warren Thompson (drums) Herb Gayle (vocals
-1)
1. O-189
He's Gone
2. O-190
Story Of Love
Karl George (trumpet) Henry Coker (trombone) Marshall Royal (clarinet, alto sax) Willie
Smith (alto sax) Lucky Thompson (tenor sax) Lady Will Carr (piano) Irving Ashby (guitar)
Charles Mingus (bass) Lee Young (drums) Claude Trenier (vocals -1)
1. 394AS-2 Honey, Take A Chance With Me
2. 396AS-2 This Subdues My Passion
Duke Garrette (trumpet) Bobby Plater (alto sax) Morris Lane (tenor sax) Charlie Fowlkes
(baritone sax) Bill Dougherty (violin) Earl Hines (piano) Billy Mackel (guitar) Charles
Mingus (bass) Curley Hamner (drums) Wini Brown (vocals -1)
Hollywood, CA, December 31, 1947
1. SR2128 Bama Lama Lam
2. SR2129 Spooky Boogie
Duke Garrette (trumpet) Bobby Plater (alto sax) Morris Lane (tenor sax) Charlie Fowlkes
(baritone sax) Bill Dougherty (violin) Earl Hines (piano) Billy Mackel (guitar) Charles
Mingus (bass) Curley Hamner (drums) Wini Brown (vocals)
Hollywood, CA, December, 1947
No Good Woman Blues
Bow Legged Woman
Lee Konitz (alto sax) Phyllis Pinkerton (piano) George Koutzen (cello) Charles Mingus (bass)
Al Levitt (drums) Jackie Paris (vocals -2)
Lennie Tristano's Manhattan Studio, 317 East 32nd Street, NY, April 12, 1952
1. RKV5241 Precognition
2. RKV5242 Portrait (take 2)
Billy Taylor (piano) Oscar Pettiford (cello) Charles Mingus (bass) Charlie Smith (drums)
NYC, October 16 or February 21, 1952
1102
Cello Again
1104
Sonny Boy
1105
I'm Beginning To See The Light
Baron Mingus - God's Portrait / unknown title (not released) (Fentone 2001)
Vern Carlson, Miles Davis (trumpet) Henry Coker (trombone) Boots Mussulli (alto sax)
Lucky Thompson (tenor sax) Buddy Collette (tenor sax, flute) Herb Carol (baritone sax) Buzz
Wheeler (piano) Charles Mingus (bass, cello) Warren Thompson (drums) Herb Gayle (vocals
-1)
1.
God's Portrait
2.
unknown title
Various Artists - Modern Trumpet Leaders (IAJRC 25)

Howard McGhee, Gerald Wilson (trumpet) Vic Dickenson (trombone) Sonny Criss (alto sax)
Teddy Edwards, James King (tenor sax) Jimmy Bunn (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Roy
Porter (drums)
Los Angeles, CA, spring 1946
KFI-23333 Sweet Potato
KRI-23337
KFI-23345
FKI-26610
Hoggin'
Blues A La King
Night Mist
Lady Will Carr - After Hours / Lady Will Carr/Baron Mingus - Pipe
Dream (4 Star 1106)
Lady Will Carr (piano) Irving Ashby (guitar) Charles Mingus (bass)
Los Angeles, CA, April 26, 1946
388AS-2
After Hours
Baron Mingus - Ashby De La Zouch / Love On A Greyhound Bus (4 Star

1105)
Karl George (trumpet) Henry Coker (trombone) Willie Smith (alto sax) Marshall Royal (alto
sax, clarinet) Lucky Thompson (tenor sax) Lady Will Carr (piano) Irving Ashby (guitar)
Charles Mingus (bass) Lee Young (drums)
Los Angeles, CA, April, 1946
Ashby De La Zouch
Love On A Greyhound Bus
Gene Morris - Riff G.M. / Is It A Sin (Clear Tone 501)

Walter Morris (trumpet) Gene Morris (tenor sax) George Williams (piano) Charles Mingus
(bass) Lee Young (drums) Lee Williams (vocals -2) unidentified band vocals (-1)
Los Angeles, CA, late 1946
1. KI-501-A Riff G.M.
2. KI-501-B Is It A Sin
Gene Morris - G-Ing With Gene / Laughing At Life (Clear Tone 502)
Walter Morris (trumpet) Gene Morris (tenor sax) George Williams (piano) Charles Mingus
(bass) Lee Young (drums) Lee Williams (vocals -2)
Los Angeles, CA, late 1946
1. FOTOG-Ing With Gene
502-A
2. FOTOLaughing At Life
502-B
** also issued on Miltone 219.
1947
Lionel Hampton 3 - Sweatin' With Hamp 1945.1950 (MCA (F) 510.103)
Teddy Buckner, Wendell Culley, Duke Garrette, Leo Shepherd, Snooky Young (trumpet)
Andrew Penn, James Robinson, Britt Woodman, Jimmy Wormick (trombone) Jackie Kelso
(clarinet, alto sax) Ben Kynard, Bobby Plater (alto sax) Morris Lane, John Sparrow (tenor
sax) Charlie Fowlkes (baritone sax) Lionel Hampton (vibes) Milt Buckner (piano) Billy
Mackel (guitar) Joe Comfort, Charles Mingus (bass) Earl Walker (drums)
Hollywood, CA, November 3, 1947
L4528
Goldwyn Stomp
Walter Williams (trumpet) replaces Young
L4543
Hawk's Nest
L4544
Mingus Fingus
L4545
Muchacho Azul
** also issued on MCA 1331.
Lionel Hampton - Hamp's Golden Favorites (Decca DL 4296)

Snooky Young (trumpet) replaces Williams
L4529
Red Top
Walter Williams (trumpet) replaces Young
L4546
Midnight Sun
** also issued on Decca DL 74296.
Lionel Hampton 5 - Swinging Sessions! 1945.1950 (MCA (F) 510.117)

Snooky Young (trumpet) replaces Williams
L4530
Giddy Up
Lionel Hampton 7 - Hamp's Small Combos 1947-1950 (MCA (F) 510.181)

Benny Bailey (trumpet -1/3) Morris Lane (tenor sax) Lionel Hampton (vibes, vocals) Dodo
Marmarosa (piano -1/3) Milt Buckner (piano -4) Billy Mackel (guitar) Charles Mingus (bass)
Curley Hamner (drums) Earl Walker (drums -1/3)
1. L4560
Cherokee
2. L4561
No. 2 Re-Bop And Be-Bop
3. L4562
Zoo-Baba-Do-Oo-Ee
4. L4563
Be-Bop's Turning Blue
1948
Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra 1948 (Weka (Swi) Jds 12-1)
Teddy Buckner, Wendell Culley, Duke Garrette, Fats Navarro, Leo Shepherd (trumpet) Sonny
Craven, Andrew Penn, Britt Woodman, Jimmy Wormick (trombone) Ben Kynard, Bobby
Plater (alto sax) John Sparrow, Billy Williams (tenor sax) Charlie Fowlkes (baritone sax)
Lionel Hampton (vibes, piano, drums, vocals) Milt Buckner (piano) Charlie Harris, Charles
Mingus (bass) Earl Walker (drums)
radio broadcast, "Howard Theatre", Washington, DC, May 1, 1948
Hot House
Jimmy Nottingham (trumpet) Lester Bass (bass trumpet) Wes Montgomery (guitar) replaces
Navarro, Penn, Harris
radio broadcast, Geneva, NY, July 1, 1948
Adam Blew His Hat
Teddy Buckner, Wendell Culley, Duke Garrette, Jimmy Nottingham, Leo Shepherd (trumpet)
Lester Bass (bass trumpet) Sonny Craven, Britt Woodman, Jimmy Wormick (trombone) Ben
Kynard, Bobby Plater (alto sax) John Sparrow, Billy Williams (tenor sax) Charlie Fowlkes
(baritone sax) Lionel Hampton (vibes, piano, drums, vocals) Milt Buckner (piano) Bobby
Tucker (piano -1) Wes Montgomery (guitar) Charles Mingus (bass) Earl Walker (drums)
Billie Holiday (vocals -1) Wynonie Harris (vocals -2)
1.
I Cover The Waterfront
2.
Good Rockin' Tonight
Teddy Buckner, Wendell Culley, Duke Garrette, Jimmy Nottingham, Leo Shepherd (trumpet)
Lester Bass (bass trumpet) Sonny Craven, Britt Woodman, Jimmy Wormick (trombone)
Johnny Board, Ben Kynard, Bobby Plater (alto sax) John Sparrow, Billy Williams (tenor sax)
Charlie Fowlkes (baritone sax) Lionel Hampton (vibes, piano, drums, vocals) Milt Buckner
(piano) Wes Montgomery (guitar) Charles Mingus (bass) Earl Walker (drums)
Brant Inn Boogie
same personnel
radio broadcast, Peoria, IL, August 4, 1948
Body And Soul
same personnel
radio broadcast, Denver, CO, August 11, 1948
Satchmo's Blues
Lionel Hampton In Concert (Cicala Jazz Live (It) BLJ 8015)

Teddy Buckner, Wendell Culley, Duke Garrette, Fats Navarro, Leo Shepherd (trumpet) Sonny
Craven, Andrew Penn, Britt Woodman, Jimmy Wormick (trombone) Ben Kynard, Bobby
Plater (alto sax) John Sparrow, Billy Williams (tenor sax) Charlie Fowlkes (baritone sax)
Lionel Hampton (vibes, piano, drums, vocals) Milt Buckner (piano) Charlie Harris, Charles
Mingus (bass) Earl Walker (drums)
radio broadcast, "Howard Theatre", Washington, DC, May 1, 1948
Adam Blew His Hat
Goldwyn Stomp
1950
The Red Norvo Trio With Tal Farlow And Charles Mingus (Savoy SJL 2212)
Red Norvo (vibes) Tal Farlow (guitar) Charles Mingus (bass)

D305-1
Swedish Pastry (take 1)
same personnel
Chicago, IL, October 13, 1950
Mood Indigo
Prelude To A Kiss
'Deed I Do
same personnel
D481-1
This Can't Be Love (take 1)
D481-2
This Can't Be Love (take 2)
D482-1
Godchild (take 1)
D482-2
Godchild (take 2)
Red Norvo - Move! (Savoy MG 12088)

same personnel
D305-2
Swedish Pastry (mst. take)
D306
Cheek To Cheek
D307
Night And Day
D308
Time And Tide
same personnel
D375 | D405 September Song
D376 | D406 Move
D377 | D407 I've Got You Under My Skin
D378 | D409 I Get A Kick Out Of You
D379 | D408 I'll Remember April
D380 | D410 I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
D383 | D413 Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart
same personnel
D480
If I Had You
D481-3
This Can't Be Love (mst. take)
D482-3
Godchild (mst. take)
Red Norvo/George Shearing - Midnight On Cloud 69 (Savoy MG 12093)

same personnel
D381 | D411 Little White Lies
D382 | D412 Have You Met Miss Jones
same personnel

D483-3
I'm Yours
Red Norvo Trio (Standard Q 261)

same personnel
Standard Transcriptions, Chicago, IL, probably late 1950-early 1951
Tea For Two
Night And Day
The Red Norvo Trio (Natural Organic 7001)

same session
I Only Have Eyes For You
Budo
Good Bait
September In The Rain
C Jam Blues
Godchild
Crazy Rhythm
Where Or When
Begin The Beguine
Red Norvo Trio (Rond-Lette A 28)

same session
Sweet Georgia Brown
This Can't Be Love
September Song
The Blue Room
Rose Room
East Of The Sun
Honeysuckle Rose
Exactly Like You
Ay Ay Ay
Oh, Lady Be Good
Confessin'

same session

I Get A Kick Out Of You
Swedish Pastry
Move
If I Had You
Time And Tide

same session
Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart
My Blue Heaven
I'm Yours
Sunday
Cheek To Cheek
1951
The Charles Mingus Duo And Trio - Debut Rarities, Vol. 2 (Original Jazz
Classics OJCCD-1808-2)
Spaulding Givens equal Nadi Qamar (piano -1,2,4/9) Charles Mingus (bass -1,2,4/9, piano -3)
Hollywood, CA, April, 1951
1.
What Is This Thing Called Love
2.
Darn That Dream
3.
Yesterdays
4.
Body And Soul
5.
Blue Moon
6.
Blue Tide
7.
Darn That Dream (alternate take)
8.
Jeepers Creepers (take 1)
9.
Jeepers Creepers (take 2)
Spaulding Givens equal Nadi Qamar (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach (drums)
NYC, April 14, 1953
Day Dream (take 1)
Day Dream (take 2)
Theme From "Rhapsody In Blue" (take 1)
Theme From "Rhapsody In Blue" (take 2)
Jet (take 1)
Jet (take 2)
Miles Davis - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Art Blakey (Ozone 7)
Miles Davis (trumpet) Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Big Nick Nicholas (tenor sax) Billy Taylor
(piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Art Blakey (drums)
"Birdland", NYC, September 29, 1951
Move (Mod)
The Squirrel
Lady Bird
Billy Taylor - Jazz At Storyville (Roost RLP 406)

Billy Taylor (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Marquis Foster (drums)
"Storyville Club", Boston, MA, November 6, 1951
All The Things You Are
Lady Bird
Laura
Charles Mingus - Vital Savage Horizons (Alto AL 714)

same session
"Storyville Club", Boston, MA, November 6, 1951
I'm Beginning To See The Light
Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Yusef Lateef (tenor sax, flute) Roland Kirk (tenor sax, manzello,
stritch) Charles Mingus (piano) Doug Watkins (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) Pee Wee
Marquette (announcer)
broadcast, "Birdland", NYC, October 21, 1961
Blue Cee (Improvisation) (Nouroog)
Ecclusiastics
Richard Williams (trumpet) Charles McPherson (alto sax) Booker Ervin (tenor sax) Toshiko
Akiyoshi (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) "Symphony Sid" Torin
(announcer)
broadcast, "Birdland", NYC, March 31, 1962
Monk, Funk Or Vice Versa (Monk, Bunk And Vice Versa)
Melvin Moore - While I'm Gone / I'll Be There (King 4519)

unknown (flute) unknown (oboe) Terry Gibbs (vibes) Billy Taylor (piano) Mundell Lowe
(guitar) Charles Mingus (bass) Charlie Smith (drums) Melvin Moore (vocals) unidentified
strings
NYC, December 18, 1951
K8150-1
While I'm Gone
K8153-1
I'll Be There
Melvin Moore - Possessed / Hold Me, Kiss Me, Squeeze Me (King 4539)
same session
K8151-1
K8152-1
Possessed
Hold Me, Kiss Me, Squeeze Me
1952 (age 30)

The Rarest On Debut: Charles Mingus (Mythic Sound (It) MSLP 001)
Al Levitt (drums) Jackie Paris (vocals)
Portrait (take 1)
Hank Jones (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach (drums) George Gordon Jr., George
Gordon, Honey Gordon, Richard Gordon (vocals)
NYC, April 29, 1953
You And Me (alternate take)
Ernie Royal (trumpet) Willie Dennis (trombone) Eddie Caine (alto sax, flute) Teo Macero
(tenor sax, clarinet) Danny Bank (baritone sax) Jackson Wiley (cello) John Lewis (piano)
Charles Mingus (bass, arranger) Kenny Clarke (drums) Janet Thurlow (vocals -2) Paul Bley
(conductor) Spaulding Givens equal Nadi Qamar (arranger)
NYC, October 28, 1953
1.
Miss Bliss
2.
Blue Tide
3.
Pink Topsy (edited version)
The Charles Mingus Group Featuring Jackie Paris, The Gordons, And Bob
Benton - Debut Rarities, Vol. 4 (Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-1829-2)
Al Levitt (drums) Bob Benton (vocals -1,2)
1.
I've Lost My Love (take 1)
2.
I've Lost My Love (take 2)
3.
Extrasensory Perception (alternate take)
Paige Brook (flute, alto sax) Jackson Wiley (cello) John Mehegan (piano) Charles Mingus
(bass, narrator) Max Roach (drums, voice) Jackie Paris (vocals, narrator)
Lennie Tristano's Manhattan Studio, 317 East 32nd Street, NY, September 16, 1952
E2CB6494-2 Paris In Blue, Edition 1 (Orientation)
E2CB6495-2 Make Believe
E2CB6497-2 Montage
Hank Jones (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach (drums) Honey Gordon (vocals)
George Gordon Jr., George Gordon, Richard Gordon (vocals -1)
NYC, April 29, 1953
1. RM509
You And Me
2. RM511
Cupid
Jazz Workshop - Autobiography In Jazz (Debut DEB 198)

Al Levitt (drums)
E2KB6500-1 Extrasensory Perception
Paris In Blue, Edition 2
Hank Jones (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach (drums) Honey Gordon (vocals -2,3)
George Gordon Jr., George Gordon, Richard Gordon (vocals -3)
NYC, April 29, 1953
1.
Medley: You Go To My Head
2. RM508
Can You Blame Me
3. RM510
Bebopper
Bud Powell (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach (drums)
"Massey Hall", Toronto, ON, Canada, May 15, 1953
I've Got You Under My Skin
Willie Dennis, Bennie Green, J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding (trombone) John Lewis (piano)
Charles Mingus (bass) Art Taylor (drums)
"Putnam Central Club", Brooklyn, NY, September 18, 1953
Kai's Kid (Kai's Day)
Charles Mingus (bass, arranger) Kenny Clarke (drums) Janet Thurlow (vocals) Paul Bley
Eclipse
Paul Bley (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Art Blakey (drums)
NYC, November 30, 1953
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Louis Mucci (trumpet) unknown (trombone) unknown (French horn) Julius Baker (flute)
unknown (oboe) John LaPorta (alto sax, clarinet) Jackson Wiley (cello) unknown (harp) Billy
Taylor (piano) Milt Hinton, Fred Zimmerman (bass) Joe Morello (drums, percussion)
probably Morris Lang (timpani) unidentified 5 strings, Alonzo Levister (conductor) Charles
Mingus (arranger) plus an overdub: Thad Jones (trumpet)
NYC, probably September 26, 1955 or September 17, 1954
Portrait
The George Wallington Trios Featuring Charles Mingus, Oscar Pettiford,

Max Roach (Prestige PR 7587)
George Wallington (piano) Chuck Wayne (mandola -1) Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach
(drums)
NYC, September 4, 1952
1. 351
Love Beat
2. 352
Summer Rain
3. 353
Escalating
4. 354
Laura
** also issued on Original Jazz Classics OJC-1754, OJCCD-1754-2.
** same contents as Prestige PRLP 136 + PRLP 158.
Jazz Workshop - Autobiography In Jazz (Debut (J) DEB 198)

Paris In Blue, Edition 3
** also issued on Original Jazz Classics OJC-115.
Charlie Parker - Ballads And Birdland (Klacto (E) MG 101)

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Duke Jordan (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Phil Brown (drums)
radio broadcast, "Birdland", NYC, September 20, 1952
Ornithology
52nd Street Theme
Various Artists - Operation Jazz (Roost OJ 1)

Billy Taylor (piano) Oscar Pettiford (cello) Charles Mingus (bass) Charlie Smith (drums)
NYC, October 16 or February 21, 1952
1103
Ah-Dee-Dong Blues (Oriental Cello Blues)
Conversation
From Barrelhouse To Bop: A History Of Jazz Piano - Narrated And Played

By John Mehegan With Charles Mingus, Bassist (Perspective PR 1)
John Mehegan (piano, narrator) Charles Mingus (bass)
NYC, late 1952
Barrelhouse: Jelly Roll Morton / King Porter Stomp
Ragtime: Scott Joplin / Maple Leaf Rag
Boogie Woogie: Pinetop Smith / Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
Classic Swing: Earl Hines / Rosetta
Classic Swing: Fats Waller / Ain't Misbehavin'
Dixie: Bob Zurke / Tea For Two
Modern Swing: Teddy Wilson / Don't Blame Me
Modern Swing: Art Tatum / Sweet Lorraine
Society: Cy Walter / This Can't Be Love
Bop: George Shearing / Debbie D
Charlie Parker - The Happy "Bird" (Charlie Parker PLP 404)

Joe Gordon (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Bill Wellington (tenor sax) Dick Twardzik
(piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Roy Haynes (drums)
"Hi-Hat Club", Boston, MA, December 8-12, 1952
I'll Remember April
1953
The Complete Roost Sonny Stitt Studio Sessions (Mosaic MD9-208)
Kai Winding (trombone) Don Elliott (mellophone) Sonny Stitt (alto, tenor sax) Sid Cooper
(tenor sax, piccolo) George Berg (baritone sax) Horace Silver (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
Don Lamond (drums) Johnny Richards (arranger)
Coastal Recording Studios, NYC, March 18, 1953
1156-2
Sancho Panza
1157-2
Sweet And Lovely
1158-1
If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
1159-2
Hooke's Tours
Kai Winding (trombone) Don Elliott (mellophone) Sonny Stitt (alto, tenor sax) Jerry Sanfino
(tenor sax, piccolo) George Berg (baritone sax) Al Williams (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Jo
Jones (drums) Santos Miranda or Luis Miranda (congas) Johnny Richards (arranger)
Fulton Recording, NYC, November 16, 1953
1178-5/9
Loose Walk
1179-3
Pink Satin
1180-4
Shine On Harvest Moon
1181-6
Opus CCII
** same contents as Roost RLP 415 + RLP 2204 + RLP 2208 + RLP 2219 + RLP 2226 +
RLP 2230 + RLP 2235 + RLP 2240 + RLP 2244 + RLP 2245 + RLP 2247 + RLP 2252 +
RLP 2253 + RLP 2262 + 27 bonus tracks.
Bud Powell - Spring Broadcasts 1953 (ESP-Disk' ESP 3022)

Bud Powell (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Roy Haynes (drums)
WJZ radio broadcast, "Birdland", NYC, March 23, 1953
I Want To Be Happy
Sure Thing
Embraceable You
Woody'n You
Salt Peanuts
** also issued on ESP-Disk' ESPCD 3022.
Hooray For Bud Powell Trio (Session Disc 109)

same session
WJZ radio broadcast, "Birdland", NYC, March 23, 1953
Lullaby Of Birdland (incomplete)
Bud Powell - Inner Fires (Elektra Musician E1-60030)

same personnel
"Club Kavakos", Washington, DC, April 5, 1953
I Want To Be Happy
Somebody Loves Me
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Salt Peanuts
Conception
Lullaby Of Birdland
Little Willie Leaps
Hallelujah
Lullaby Of Birdland (alternate take)
Sure Thing
Woody'n You
Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 2 - Burning In U.S.A., 53-55 (Mythic Sound MS 6002-1)
Bob Carey, Jon Eardley, Ed Leddy, Irving "Marky" Markowitz, Charlie Walp (trumpet) Don
Spiker, Bob Swope, Earl Swope (trombone) Jim Riley (alto sax) Ben Lary, Angelo Tompros
(tenor sax) Jack Nimitz (baritone sax) Bud Powell (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Roy Haynes
(drums) Joe Timer (leader) Bill Potts (arranger)
"Club Kavakos", Washington, DC, April 5, 1953
Tiny's Blues (Big Band Blues)
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet, vocals) Bud Powell (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach
(drums)
"Birdland", NYC???, circa late May, 1953
Woody'n You
Salt Peanuts
** also issued on Mythic Sound MS 6002-2.
Charles Mingus - The Complete Debut Recordings (Debut 12DCD-4402-2)

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet, vocals) Charlie Parker as Charlie Chan (alto sax) Bud Powell
(piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach (drums)
Perdido (undubbed version)
Salt Peanuts (undubbed version)
All The Things You Are (undubbed version)
52nd Street Theme (undubbed version)

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker as Charlie Chan (alto sax) Bud Powell (piano)
Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach (drums)
Allen's Alley (Wee) (undubbed version)
Hot House (undubbed version)
A Night In Tunisia (undubbed version)
Eddie Bert (trombone) George Barrow (tenor sax) Mal Waldron (piano) Charles Mingus
(bass) Max Roach (drums)
"Cafe Bohemia", NYC, December 23, 1955
Drums (take 1)
Drums (take 2)
I'll Remember April (alternate take)
(bass) Willie Jones (drums)
A Foggy Day (alternate take)
Mal Waldron (piano)
A Portrait Of Bud Powell
Haitian Fight Song (alternate take)
Love Chant (alternate take)
Lady Bird (alternate take)
Curtis Porter (flute) Charles Mingus (piano, percussion, voice) Dannie Richmond (drums)
Jimmy Knepper, Horace Parlan or Phineas Newborn, Clarence Shaw (percussion)
NYC, probably October or late 1957 or 1958
Untitled Percussion Composition
The Quintet - Jazz At Massey Hall, Vol. 1 (Debut DLP 2)

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet, vocals) Charlie Parker as Charlie Chan (alto sax) Bud Powell
(piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach (drums)
Perdido
** also issued on Vogue (E) LDE 040; Disques Swing (F) M 33312 entitled "The Quintet Of
The Year - Jazz At Massey Hall, Vol. 1".
The Quintet - Jazz At Massey Hall (Debut DEB 124)

same session
Perdido
Salt Peanuts #1&2
52nd Street Theme
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker as Charlie Chan (alto sax) Bud Powell (piano)
Allen's Alley (Wee)
Hot House #1&2
A Night In Tunisia
** also issued on Fantasy LP 6003, LP 86003; Original Jazz Classics OJC-044, OJCCD-0442. America (F) 30 AM 6053 entitled "Charlie Parker - Jazz At Massey Hall".
The Bud Powell Trio (Fantasy LP 6006)

Bud Powell (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach (drums)
Embraceable You
Sure Thing
Cherokee
Hallelujah (Jubilee)
Lullaby Of Birdland
** also issued on Fantasy LP 86006. America (F) 30 AM 6056 entitled "Bud Powell - Charlie
Mingus - Max Roach".
Miles Davis - Blue Haze (Prestige PRLP 7054)

Miles Davis (trumpet) Charles Mingus (piano) Percy Heath (bass) Max Roach (drums)
WOR Studios, NYC, May 19, 1953
482
Smooch
The Complete Charlie Parker On Verve - Bird (Verve (J) J00J-29001/10)

Junior Collins (French horn) Al Block (flute) Tommy Mace (oboe) Manny Thaler (bassoon)
Hal McKusick (clarinet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Tony Aless (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
Max Roach (drums) The Dave Lambert Singers: including Annie Ross (vocals) Dave Lambert
(vocals, arranger) Gil Evans (arranger, conductor)
Fulton Recording, NYC, May 25, 1953
1238-1
In The Still Of The Night
1238-2
1238-3
1238-4
1238-5
1238-6
1239-1
Old Folks
1239-2
1239-3
1239-4
1239-5
-
1239-6
1239-7
1239-8
The Magnificent Charlie Parker (Clef MGC 646)

same session
1238-7
In The Still Of The Night
1239-9
Old Folks
** originally intended as Clef MGC 733.
The Genius Of Charlie Parker #7 - Jazz Perennial (Verve MGV 8009)

same session
1240-9
If I Love Again
Bud Powell - Summer Broadcasts 1953 (ESP-Disk' ESP 3023)

Bud Powell (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Art Taylor (drums)
WJZ radio broadcast, "Birdland", NYC, May 30, 1953
Autumn In New York
I Want To Be Happy
Charlie Parker (alto sax) Bud Powell (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Art Taylor (drums)
Candido (congas)
Moose The Mooche
Cheryl
Bud Powell (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Art Taylor (drums)
WJZ radio broadcast, "Birdland", NYC, June 20, 1953
Budo
My Heart Stood Still
Dance Of The Infidels
same personnel
WJZ radio broadcast, "Birdland", NYC, July 11, 1953
** also issued on ESP-Disk' ESPCD 3023.
Charlie Parker - The Bird You Never Heard (Stash ST-CD-10)

Candido (congas)
WJZ radio broadcast, "Birdland", NYC, May 30, 1953
Lullaby Of Birdland
Charlie Parker - Dance Of The Infidels (S.C.A.M. JPG 1)

WJZ radio broadcast, NYC, May, 1953
Bud Powell Trio - Jazz At Massey Hall, Vol. 2 (Original Jazz Classics OJC111)
Billy Taylor (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Art Taylor (drums)
NYC, summer 1953
Bass-Ically Speaking
** also issued on Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-111-2.
Bud Powell Trio - Jazz At Massey Hall, Vol. 2 (Original Jazz Classics
OJCCD-111-2)
same session
NYC, summer 1953
Bass-Ically Speaking (alternate take 1)
Untitled Blues
** reissue of Original Jazz Classics OJC-111 + 6 bonus tracks.
Jazz Workshop - Trombone Rapport / Trombone Workshop (Debut (D) DEB

130)
Wee Dot (Blues For Some Bones)
Stardust
Move
I'll Remember April
Yesterdays
Four Trombones (Debut DEB 126)

same session
Now's The Time
Trombosphere
Ow!
Chazzanova
** also issued on Jazz Selection (F) LDM 30064. Fantasy LP 6008, LP 86008; America (F)
30 AM 6058 entitled "Four Trombones, Vol. 2".
The Charles Mingus Octet/The Jimmy Knepper Quintet - Debut Rarities, Vol.
1 (Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-1807-2)
Charles Mingus (bass, arranger) Kenny Clarke (drums) Janet Thurlow (vocals -2) Paul Bley
1.
Pink Topsy (alternate take)
2.
Eclipse (alternate take)
Jimmy Knepper (trombone, arranger) Joe Maini (alto sax) Bill Triglia (piano) Charles Mingus
(bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
NYC, July 10, 1957
Latter Day Saint (alternate take 1)
Latter Day Saint (alternate take 2)
Latter Day Saint (take 6)
Latter Day Saint (alternate take #?)
The Masher (alternate take)
Charles Mingus Octet (Debut DEP 450)

Charles Mingus (bass, arranger) Kenny Clarke (drums) Paul Bley (conductor) Spaulding
Givens equal Nadi Qamar (arranger)
Pink Topsy
Introducing Paul Bley (Original Jazz Classics OJC-201)

Paul Bley (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Art Blakey (drums)
Opus I
Walkin' (Teapot)
Like Someone In Love
I Can't Get Started
Spontaneous Combustion
Split Kick
Introducing Paul Bley (Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-201-2)

same session

Opus I (alternate take)
The Theme
This Time The Dream's On Me
Zootcase
Teo Macero - Explorations (Debut DLP 6)

Teo Macero (alto, tenor sax, arranger) Lenny Dijay (accordion, arranger) Louis Lubella,
Charles Mingus (bass) Ed Shaughnessy (drums, piano)
Teo
I'll Remember April
How Low The Earth
Mitzi
Yesterdays
Explorations
Oscar Pettiford - My Little Cello (Fantasy LP 6010)

Julius Watkins (French horn) Phil Urso (tenor sax) Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) Oscar Pettiford
(cello) Charles Mingus (bass) Percy Brice (drums)
The Pendulum At Falcon's Lair
Jack, The Fieldstalker
Stockholm Sweetnin'
Low And Behold
** also issued on Fantasy LP 86010; America (F) 30 AM 6060. Original Jazz Classics OJC112, OJCCD-1926-2 entitled "The New Oscar Pettiford Sextet".
1954
Ada Moore (Original Jazz Classics OJC-1701)
John LaPorta (alto sax, clarinet) Wally Cirillo (piano) Tal Farlow (guitar) Oscar Pettiford
(bass) Osie Johnson (drums) Ada Moore (vocals) Alonzo Levister, Charles Mingus (arranger)
NYC, June 27, 1954
The Man I Love
Something To Live For
You Came A Long Way From St. Louis
The Devil Is A Woman
Lass From The Low Country
Strange Fascination
Summertime
Ada Moore (Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-1701-2)

same session
NYC, June 27, 1954
The Man I Love (take 2)
You Came A Long Way From St. Louis (take 4)
The Devil Is A Woman (take 1)
Lass From The Low Country (take 2)
Thad Jones (Debut DEB 127)

Thad Jones (trumpet) Frank Wess (tenor sax, flute -1,2,4) Hank Jones (piano) Charles Mingus
(bass) Kenny Clarke (drums)
Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, August 11, 1954
1.
Elusive (Illusive)
2.
Sombre Intrusion
3.
You Don't Know What Love Is
4.
Bitty Ditty
5.
I'll Remember April
Thad Jones (trumpet) John Dennis (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach (drums)
Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, March 10, 1955
One More
I Can't Get Started
More Of The Same
Get Out Of Town (alternate take)
** also issued on Original Jazz Classics OJC-625, OJCCD-625-2 entitled "The Fabulous
Thad Jones".
The Fabulous Thad Jones (Original Jazz Classics OJC-625)

Thad Jones (trumpet) Frank Wess (tenor sax, flute) Hank Jones (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
Kenny Clarke (drums)
Chazzanova
** reissue of Debut DEB 127 entitled "Thad Jones" + 1 bonus track.
The Fabulous Thad Jones (Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-625-2)

One More (alternate take)
** reissue of Debut DEB 127 entitled "Thad Jones" + 3 bonus tracks.
Various Artists - The Many Faces Of Blues (Savoy MG 12125)

J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding (trombone) Billy Bauer (guitar) Charles Mingus (bass) Kenny
Clarke (drums)
Blues For Trombones
J.J. Johnson/Kai Winding - Jay And Kai (Savoy MG 12010)

same session
Lament
The Major
J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding (trombone) Wally Cirillo (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Kenny
Clarke (drums)
Bernie's Tune
Reflections
Co-Op
Blues In Twos
The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 1 (Blue Note BLP 1505)
J.J. Johnson (trombone) Wynton Kelly (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Kenny Clarke (drums)
"Sabu" Martinez (congas -1/3,5)
Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, September 24, 1954
1. tk.2
Too Marvelous For Words
2. tk.4
Jay
3. tk.5
Old Devil Moon
4. tk.7
It's You Or No One
5. tk.11
Coffee Pot
** also issued on Blue Note BST 81505 (pseudo stereo), CDP 7 81505 2.
The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 2 (Blue Note BLP 1506)
J.J. Johnson (trombone) Wynton Kelly (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Kenny Clarke (drums)
Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, September 24, 1954
tk.10
Time After Time
** also issued on Blue Note BST 81506 (pseudo stereo), CDP 7 81506 2.
Charles Mingus - Jazz Composers Workshop #2 (Savoy MG 12059)

John LaPorta (clarinet, alto sax) Teo Macero (tenor, baritone sax) George Barrow (baritone,
tenor sax) Mal Waldron (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Rudy Nichols (drums)
SCM6914
Purple Heart
SCM6915
Gregorian Chant
SCM6916
Eulogy For Rudy Williams
SCM6917
Tea For Two
SCM6918
Getting Together
Teo Macero (tenor sax) Wally Cirillo (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Kenny Clarke (drums)
NYC, January 30, 1955
SWC4654
Transeason
SWC4655
Rose Geranium
SWC4656
Level Seven
SWC4657
Smog L.A.
Charles Mingus - Jazz Workshop (Savoy SJL 1113)

John LaPorta (clarinet, alto sax) Teo Macero (tenor, baritone sax) George Barrow (baritone,
tenor sax) Mal Waldron (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Rudy Nichols (drums)
SCM6919
Body And Soul
Various Artists - Organ - Sweet And Swingin' (Regent MG 6004)

Vin Strong (organ) Wally Richardson (guitar) Charles Mingus (bass) James Smith (drums)
SVS7900
Lovingly
SVS7901
Heart Strings
Vin Strong - Heart Strings / Swingin' The Mambo (Savoy 1145)

same session
SVS7902
Swingin' The Mambo
The Jazz Experiments Of Charles Mingus (Bethlehem BCP 65)

Thad Jones (trumpet -1/3,6) John LaPorta (clarinet, alto sax) Teo Macero (tenor, baritone sax)
Jackson Wiley (cello -1/3) Charles Mingus (bass, piano) Clem DeRosa (drums, tambourine)
NYC, December, 1954
1.
2.
Stormy Weather
3.
Minor Intrusion
4.
Thrice Upon A Theme
5.
Four Hands
6.
The Spur Of The Moment / Echonitus
Charles Mingus/John LaPorta - Jazzical Moods (Original Jazz Classics

OJCCD-1857-2)
Thad Jones (trumpet) John LaPorta (clarinet, alto sax) Teo Macero (tenor, baritone sax)
Jackson Wiley (cello) Charles Mingus (bass, piano) Clem DeRosa (drums, tambourine)
NYC, December, 1954
Abstractions
** same contents as Period SPL 1107 + Period SPL 1111.
1955
Teddy Charles - Evolution (Prestige PRLP 7078)
J.R. Monterose (tenor sax) Teddy Charles (vibes, piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Jerry Segal
(drums)
Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, January 6, 1955
680
Violetta
681
Relaxo Abstracto
682
Speak Low
683
Jay Walkin'
684
The Night We Called It A Day
685
I Can't Get Started
Hazel Scott - Relaxed Piano Moods (Original Jazz Classics OJC-1702)

Hazel Scott (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach (drums)
Like Someone In Love
Peace Of Mind
Lament
The Jeep Is Jumpin'
Git Up From There
A Foggy Day
Hazel Scott - Relaxed Piano Moods (Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-1702-2)

same session
Mountain Greenery
Git Up From There (alternate take)
Lament (alternate take)
Various Artists - I Just Love Jazz Piano - Down And Out (Savoy MG 12100)
Johnny Mehegan (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Kenny Clarke (drums)
SJM4650
Blues Too Much
SJM4651
Thou Swell
SJM4653
Cherokee
The John Mehegan Trio/Quartet (Savoy MG 15054)

same session
SJM4652
The Boy Next Door
Jimmy Scott - Very Truly Yours (Savoy MG 12027)

Budd Johnson (tenor sax) Howard Biggs (piano, arranger) Mundell Lowe (guitar) Charles
Mingus (bass) Rudy Nichols (drums) Little Jimmy Scott (vocals)
NYC, February 5, 1955
WJS4662
When Did You Leave Heaven
WJS4663
Guilty
WJS4664
Everybody Needs Somebody
WJS4665
Why Don't You Open Up Your Heart
** also issued on Savoy MG 12300.
The Fabulous Thad Jones (Fantasy LP 6004)

One More (edited version)
Get Out Of Town
** also issued on Fantasy LP 86004; America (F) 30 AM 6054. Prestige MPP-2506 entitled
"Thad Jones And Charles Mingus".
John Dennis - New Piano Expressions (Debut DEB 121)

John Dennis (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach (drums)
Ensenada
Machajo
Cherokee
Seven Moons
** also issued on Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-1843-2 entitled "New Piano Expressions:
Debut Rarities, Vol. 5".
John Dennis - New Piano Expressions: Debut Rarities, Vol. 5 (Original Jazz
Classics OJCCD-1843-2)
same session
Seven Moons (alternate take)
All The Things You Are (take 1)
All The Things You Are (take 2)
Cherokee (alternate take)
** reissue of Debut DEB 121 entitled "New Piano Expressions" + 4 bonus tracks.
Ralph Sharon - Easy Jazz (London (US) LL 1488)

J.R. Monterose (tenor sax) Teddy Charles (vibes) Ralph Sharon (piano) Joe Puma (guitar)
Charles Mingus (bass) Kenny Clarke (drums)
NYC, May 27, 1955
Manhattan
Two Sleepy People
Have You Met Miss Jones
Man On The Couch
Just Because We're Kids
Darn That Dream
Mood For Mitch
There's A Small Hotel
Love Walked In
Can't Get Out Of This Mood
Plutocrat At The Automat
Slightly Oliver
Miles Davis - Blue Moods (Debut DEB 120)

Miles Davis (trumpet) Britt Woodman (trombone) Teddy Charles (vibes) Charles Mingus
(bass) Elvin Jones (drums)
Audio-Video Studios, NYC, July 9, 1955
Nature Boy
Alone Together
There's No You
Easy Living
** also issued on Disques Swing (F) LDM 30035 entitled "Miles Davis". Fantasy LP 6001,
LP 86001; Original Jazz Classics OJC-043, OJCCD-043-2; America (F) 30 AM 6051.
** part of Prestige PR 24022.
The Rarest On Debut: Charles Mingus Sideman (Mythic Sound (It) MSLP
002)
Louis Mucci (trumpet) unknown (trombone) unknown (French horn) Julius Baker (flute)
unknown (oboe) John LaPorta (alto sax, clarinet) Jackson Wiley (cello) unknown (harp) Billy
Taylor (piano) Milt Hinton, Fred Zimmerman (bass) Joe Morello (drums, percussion)
probably Morris Lang (timpani) unidentified 5 strings, Alonzo Levister (conductor) Charles
Mingus (arranger)
NYC, September 19, 1955 or September 17, 1954
Portrait (orig.-master)
Jimmy Knepper (trombone, arranger) Joe Maini (alto sax) Bill Triglia (piano) Charles Mingus
NYC, July 10, 1957
Bird Feather (Cunningbird)
Latter Day Saint (take 8C/6)
Latter Day Saint (take 7A) (false start)
Latter Day Saint (take 7B) (false start)
Latter Day Saint (take 8B) (false start)
Latter Day Saint (take 8C) (false start)
Latter Day Saint (take 9B) (incomplete)
Latter Day Saint (take 9C) (false start)
Jump The Blues Away (The Jumpin' Blues)
The Masher
Charles Mingus - Mingus At The Bohemia (Debut DEB 123)

Jump Monk
Serenade In Blue
Percussion Discussion
Work Song
Septemberly
All The Things You C-Sharp
** also issued on Fantasy LP 6002, LP 86002; America (F) 30 AM 6052 entitled "Chazz!".
Original Jazz Classics OJC-045, OJCCD-045-2.
Charles Mingus - Mingus At The Bohemia (Original Jazz Classics OJCCD045-2)

same session
Jump Monk (alternate take)

All The Things You C-Sharp (alternate take)
** reissue of Debut DEB 123 + 2 bonus tracks.
Charles Mingus - Chazz! (Debut (D) DEB 139)

same session
I'll Remember April
Love Chant
A Foggy Day
same session
Haitian Fight Song
Lady Bird
The Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach (Fantasy LP 6009)

(bass) Max Roach (drums)
Drums
** also issued on Fantasy LP 86009; Original Jazz Classics OJC-440, OJCCD-440-2;
America (F) 30 AM 6059.
1956
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus (Atlantic LP 1237)
Jackie McLean (alto sax) J.R. Monterose (tenor sax -1/3) Mal Waldron (piano) Charles
Mingus (bass) Willie Jones (drums)
Audio-Video Studios, NYC, January 30, 1956
Pithecanthropus Erectus: Evolution / Superiority-Complex / Decline /
1. 1865
Destruction
2. 1866
A Foggy Day
3. 1868
Love Chant
4. 1869
Profile Of Jackie
** also issued on Atlantic SD 8809.
** part of Rhino R2 72871.
Metronome All-Stars 1956 (Clef MGC 743)

Thad Jones (trumpet) Eddie Bert (trombone) Tony Scott (clarinet) Lee Konitz (alto sax) Al
Cohn, Zoot Sims (tenor sax) Serge Chaloff (baritone sax) Teddy Charles (vibes) Billy Taylor
(piano) Tal Farlow (guitar) Charles Mingus (bass) Art Blakey (drums)
NYC, June 18, 1956
2860-1
Billie's Bounce
** also issued on Verve MGV 8030.
Quincy Jones - This Is How I Feel About Jazz (ABC-Paramount ABC-149)

Art Farmer (trumpet) Jimmy Cleveland (trombone) Herbie Mann (flute, tenor sax) Gene Quill
(alto sax) Zoot Sims (tenor sax -1) Lucky Thompson (tenor sax -2) Jack Nimitz (baritone sax)
Milt Jackson (vibes) Hank Jones (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Charlie Persip (drums) Father
John Crawley (handclaps -2) Quincy Jones (arranger, conductor)
Beltone Recording Studios, NYC, September 14, 1956
1. 5332
Evening In Paris
2. 5333
Sermonette
Art Farmer (trumpet) Jimmy Cleveland (trombone) Herbie Mann (flute, tenor sax) Phil
Woods (alto sax) Lucky Thompson (tenor sax) Jack Nimitz (baritone sax) Billy Taylor
(piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Charlie Persip (drums) Quincy Jones (arranger, conductor)
Beltone Recording Studios, NYC, September 19, 1956
5340
A Sleeping Bee
5341
Boo's Bloos
** also issued on Impulse! GRD-115.
** part of Impulse! IA-9342-2; Mosaic MD5-237.
Teddy Charles - The Word From Bird (Atlantic LP 1274)

Teddy Charles (vibes) Hall Overton (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Ed Shaughnessy (drums)
2188
Laura
2201
When Your Lover Has Gone
2202
Just One Of Those Things
2203
Blue Greens
Don Heller - Blame It On My Youth (Epic LN 3220)

Al Epstein equal Al Young (sax) Nettie Druzinsky (harp) Ralph Burns (piano, director)
Wilhelm Bauer, Allen Hanlon (guitar) Charles Mingus (bass) Don Lamond (drums) Don
Heller (vocals)
NYC???, 1956
Blame It On My Youth
Ridin' On The Moon
This Heart Of Mine
The Folks Who Live On The Hill
1957
Charles Mingus - The Clown (Atlantic LP 1260)
Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Curtis Porter (tenor sax) Wade Legge (piano) Charles Mingus
(bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) Jean Shepherd (narrator)
Audio-Video Studios, NYC, February 12, 1957

2452
The Clown
Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Curtis Porter (alto sax) Wade Legge (piano) Charles Mingus
NYC, March 13, 1957
2455
Blue Cee
2457
Reincarnation Of A Love Bird
2458
Haitian Fight Song
Charles Mingus - Tonight At Noon (Atlantic LP 1416)

same session
NYC, March 13, 1957
2454
Passions Of A Woman Loved
2456
Tonight At Noon
Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Booker Ervin (tenor sax) Roland Kirk (tenor sax, manzello,
stritch, siren, flute) Charles Mingus (piano, vocals, narrator) Doug Watkins (bass) Dannie
Richmond (drums)
5758
"Old" Blues For Walt's Torin
5759
Peggy's Blue Skylight
5765
Invisible Lady
Gunther Schuller/George Russell - Modern Jazz Concert (Columbia WL 127)

Art Farmer, Louis Mucci (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Jim Buffington (French horn)
Robert DiDomenica (flute) Manuel Zegler (bassoon) John LaPorta (alto sax) Hal McKusick
(tenor sax) Teo Macero (baritone sax) Margaret Ross (harp) Teddy Charles (vibes) Bill Evans
(piano) Barry Galbraith (guitar) Fred Zimmerman (bass) Ted Sommer (drums) Charles
Mingus (voice) George Russell, Gunther Schuller (arranger, conductor)
"Brandeis Jazz Festival", NYC, June 18, 1957
CO58202
Revelations
CO58203
All Set
** also issued on CBS/Sony (J) 15AP-550 entitled "Brandeis Jazz Festival".
Charles Mingus/Hampton Hawes/Danny Richmond - Mingus Three (Jubilee

JLP 1054)
Hampton Hawes (piano -1,3/7) Sonny Clark (piano -2) Charles Mingus (bass) Danny
Richmond (drums)
NYC, July 9, 1957
1. JB888
Dizzy Moods
2. JB889
I Can't Get Started
3. JB890
Hamp's New Blues
4. JB891
Yesterdays
5. JB893
Back Home Blues
6. JB894
Summertime
7. JB895
Laura
** also issued on Josie JJM 3508 entitled "Charlie Mingus/Hampton Hawes/Danny Richmond
- Charlie Mingus Trio".
Charles Mingus - New Tijuana Moods (RCA Bluebird 5635-1-RB)

Clarence Shaw (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Curtis Porter (tenor, alto sax) Bill
Triglia (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) Frankie Dunlop (castanets 2) Ysabel Morel (vocals, handclaps -2)
NYC, July 18, 1957
1. H4JB5225Dizzy Moods (alternate composite take)
1/10/15/17
2. H4JB5226Ysabel's Table Dance (alternate composite take)
1/3A/9
3. H4JB5227Los Mariachis (alternate composite take)
4/11/15/11/24
Triglia (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
NYC, August 6, 1957
H4JB5228-9 Flamingo (partial alternative take)
H4JB5230-5 Tijuana Gift Shop (alternate take)
Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods (RCA Bluebird 09026 63840-2)

Triglia (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) Frankie Dunlop (castanets 5/8) Ysabel Morel (vocals, handclaps -5/8)
NYC, July 18, 1957
1.
H4JB5225- Dizzy Moods (bass solo)
14
2.
H4JB5225- 16
3.
H4JB5225- 17
4.
Dizzy Moods (breakdown)
H4JB5225-8
5.
Ysabel's Table Dance (breakdown)
H4JB5226-2
6.
H4JB52263A/4
7.
H4JB5226-7
8.
H4JB5226-8
9.
H4JB5227-1
10.
H4JB522710
11.
H4JB522715
12.
H4JB522716
13.
H4JB522717
14.
H4JB522718
15.
H4JB522719
16.
H4JB5227-2
17.
H4JB522720
18.
H4JB522721
19.
H4JB522722
20.
H4JB5227-3
21.
H4JB5227-5
22.
H4JB5227-6
23.
H4JB5227-7
Ysabel's Table Dance (composite incomplete take)

Ysabel's Table Dance (breakdown)
Los Mariachis (false start/breakdown)
Los Mariachis (breakdown)
Los Mariachis (false start)
Los Mariachis (false starts/breakdown/rehearsal)

-
Los Mariachis (breakdown/false start)

-
24.
H4JB5227-8
25.
H4JB5227-9
Triglia (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) Frankie Dunlop (tambourine
-2,3) Lonnie Elder (narrator -2,3)
NYC, August 6, 1957
1.
H4JB5228- Flamingo (alternate composite take)
2/3/4/6
2.
A Colloquial Dream (breakdown)
H4JB5229-6
3.
H4JB5229-8
4.
Tijuana Gift Shop (breakdown)
H4JB5230-1
5.
H4JB5230-2
6.
H4JB5230-4
7.
Tijuana Gift Shop (edited out solos)
H4JB5230-6
Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods (RCA Victor LPM 2533)

Triglia (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) Frankie Dunlop (castanets 2) Ysabel Morel (vocals, handclaps -2)
NYC, July 18, 1957
1. H4JB5225Dizzy Moods
3/10/14/15/16
2. H4JB5226Ysabel's Table Dance
3B/4/5/9
3. H4JB5227Los Mariachis (The Street Musicians)
14/15/17/15/24
Triglia (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
NYC, August 6, 1957
H4JB5228Flamingo
4/9/6
H4JB5230-6 Tijuana Gift Shop
** also issued on RCA Victor LSP 2553.
Various Artists - RCA Victor 80th Anniversary: The First Label In Jazz
(bonus disc) (RCA Victor RCMJ 68969-2)
Triglia (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) Frankie Dunlop
(tambourine) Lonnie Elder (narrator)
NYC, August 6, 1957
H4JB5229A Colloquial Dream (Scenes In The City)
6/8/10
East Coasting By Charles Mingus (Bethlehem BCP 6019)

Evans (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
NYC, August, 1957
6466/6467-4 Fifty-First Street Blues
6468-4
East Coasting
6469-7
Memories Of You
6470-6
West Coast Ghost
6471-16
Conversation
6472-5
Celia
** also issued on Bethlehem 20-30022.
East Coasting By Charles Mingus (Bethlehem 20-30022)

same session
NYC, August, 1957
6468-3
East Coasting (alternate take 3)
6469-3
Memories Of You (alternate take 3)
** reissue of Bethlehem BCP 6019 + 2 bonus tracks.
The Charles Mingus Group Featuring Wynton Kelly And Pepper Adams Debut Rarities, Vol. 3 (Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-1821-2)
Clarence Shaw (trumpet) Shafi Hadi as Curtis Porter (tenor sax) Pepper Adams (baritone sax)
Wade Legge or Wynton Kelly (piano) Henry Grimes or Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie
Richmond (drums)
NYC, September, 1957
We Got Blue (Untitled Original Blues (take 1))
Stella By Starlight (take 4)
Stella By Starlight (take 5)
Untitled Original Composition (take 3)
Untitled Original Composition (take 5)
Charles Mingus - The Rarest On Debut: Mingus Newly Discovered (Mythic

Sound (It) MSLP 003)
same session
NYC, September, 1957
Autumn In New York (take 1)

Autumn In New York (take 2)
Long Ago And Far Away (take 1) (false start)
Long Ago And Far Away (take 2)
We Got Blue (Untitled Original Blues (take 2))
Joldi (rehearsal) (short take)
Joldi (rehearsal) (long take)
Joldi (take 1)
Joldi (take 2) (false start)
Joldi (take 3) (incomplete)
Joldi (take 4)
Joldi (take 5) (false start)
Joldi (take 6) (Joldi (take 5))
Charles Mingus - A Modern Jazz Symposium Of Music And

Poetry (Bethlehem BCP 6026)
Clarence Shaw (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Curtis Porter (tenor, alto sax) Bob
Hammer (piano) Horace Parlan (piano, left hand) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond
(drums) Melvin Stewart (narrator)
NYC, October, 1957
Scenes In The City
Clarence Shaw (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Curtis Porter (tenor, alto sax) Bob
Hammer (piano) Horace Parlan (piano, left hand) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond
(drums)
New York Sketchbook
Clarence Shaw (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Curtis Porter (tenor, alto sax) Horace
Parlan (piano, left hand) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
Duke's Choice
Slippers
Bill Hardman (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Curtis Porter (tenor, alto sax) Horace
Parlan (piano, left hand) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
Nourog
1958
Langston Hughes/Charles Mingus/Leonard Feather - Weary Blues (MGM E
3697)
Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Curtis Porter (tenor sax) Horace Parlan (piano) Charles Mingus
(bass) Kenny Dennis (drums) Langston Hughes (narrator)
NYC, March 18, 1958

Consider Me: The Stranger / Midnight Stroll / Backstage
Dream Montage: Weird Nightmare / Double G Train / Jump Monk
** also issued on Verve VSP 36.
1959
Charles Mingus - Jazz Portraits (Wonderland) (United Artists UAJ 14005)
John Handy (alto sax) Booker Ervin (tenor sax -1/3) Richard Wyands (piano) Charles Mingus
"Nonagon Art Gallery", NYC, January 16, 1959
1.
Nostalgia In Times Square
2.
No Private Income Blues
3.
Alice's Wonderland
4.
I Can't Get Started
** also issued on United Artists UAJS 15005.
Charles Mingus - Blues And Roots (Atlantic LP 1305)

Willie Dennis, Jimmy Knepper (trombone) John Handy, Jackie McLean (alto sax) Booker
Ervin (tenor sax) Pepper Adams (baritone sax) Mal Waldron (piano -1) Horace Parlan (piano
-2/6) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
1. 3346
E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too
2. 3347
My Jelly Roll Soul
3. 3348
Tensions
4. 3349
Moanin'
5. 3350
Cryin' Blues
6. 3351
Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
Charles Mingus - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting, Part 1&2 (Atlantic 5006)
Ervin (tenor sax) Pepper Adams (baritone sax) Horace Parlan (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
Dannie Richmond (drums)
4732
Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting, Part 1
4733
Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting, Part 2
Charles Mingus - Passions Of A Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings

1956-1961 (Rhino R2 72871)
Ervin (tenor sax) Pepper Adams (baritone sax) Mal Waldron (piano -1) Horace Parlan (piano
-2/4) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
1.
E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too (alternate take)
2.
My Jelly Roll Soul (alternate take)
3.
Tensions (alternate take)
4.
Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting (alternate take)
Charles Mingus (interviewee) Nesuhi Ertegun (interviewer)
Nesuhi Ertegun's office, Atlantic Records, NYC, late 1961 or early 1962
Charles Mingus Interviewed by Nesuhi Ertegun
** same contents as Atlantic LP 1237 + LP 1260 + LP 1305 + LP 1377 + LP 1416 + SD 23001 + 9 bonus tracks.
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um (Columbia CL 1370)

Jimmy Knepper (trombone -1,3/5) John Handy (alto sax, clarinet) Booker Ervin (tenor sax)
Curtis Porter (tenor, alto sax) Horace Parlan (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond
(drums)
NYC, May 5, 1959
1. CO63154 Better Git Hit In Your Soul
2. CO63155 Bird Calls
3. CO63156 Fables Of Faubus
4. CO63157 Pussy Cat Dues
5. CO63159 Jelly Roll
Willie Dennis (trombone -1/3) John Handy (alto sax, clarinet) Booker Ervin (tenor sax) Curtis
Porter (tenor, alto sax) Horace Parlan (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond
(drums)
NYC, May 12, 1959
1. CO63337 Open Letter To Duke
2. CO63338 Boogie Stop Shuffle
3. CO63341 Self-Portrait In Three Colors
4. CO63342 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
** also issued on Columbia CS 8171.
Charles Mingus - Newport 1959 & More (Cool Jazz (J) 2123)
Richard Williams (trumpet) Leo Wright (alto sax, flute) Booker Ervin (tenor sax) Roland
Hanna (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) Willis Conover (announcer)
"Newport Jazz Festival", "Freebody Park", Newport, RI, July 4, 1959
Intro By Willis Conover And Mingus
Boogie Stop Shuffle
Box Seats At Newport
Diane
Gunslinging Bird
Lonnie Hillyer, Al Stanwick, Freddie Stone (trumpet) Ron Collier (trombone) Howard
Johnson (tuba) Jim O'Discoll (oboe) Charles McPherson (alto sax) Don Thompson (tenor sax)
Joe Farrell (tenor sax, flute) Bernie Piltch, Morty Ross (baritone sax) Jaki Byard (piano)
Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
"Inner Voices", "CBC TV", Toronto, ON, Canada, October 31, 1964
So Long Eric
Meditations
Charles Mingus - Mingus Dynasty (Columbia CL 1440)

Richard Williams (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Jerome Richardson (flute, baritone
sax) John Handy (alto sax) Booker Ervin, Benny Golson (tenor sax) Teddy Charles (vibes 1/4) Roland Hanna (piano -1/4) Nico Bunick (piano -5) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie
Richmond (drums, timpani)
Columbia 30th Street Studios, NYC, November 1, 1959
1. CO63881 Gunslinging Bird
2. CO63882 Song With Orange
3. CO63884 Diane
4. CO63885 Far Wells, Mill Valley
5. CO63886 New Now, Know How
Don Ellis (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper (trombone) John Handy (alto sax) Booker Ervin (tenor
sax) Seymour Barab, Maurice Brown (cello -2) Roland Hanna (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
Columbia 30th Street Studios, NYC, November 13, 1959
1. CO63888 Slop
2. CO63889 Put Me In That Dungeon
3. CO63890 Mood Indigo
4. CO63891 Things Ain't What They Used To Be
** also issued on Columbia CS 8236.
1960
Charles Mingus - Pre-Bird (Mercury MG 20627)
Marcus Belgrave, Ted Curson, Hobart Dotson, Clark Terry, Richard Williams (trumpet)
Eddie Bert, Charles Greenlee, Slide Hampton, Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Don Butterfield
(tuba) Robert DiDomenica (flute) Harry Shulman (oboe) John LaPorta (alto sax, clarinet) Eric
Dolphy (alto sax, bass clarinet, flute) Bill Barron, Joe Farrell (tenor sax) Yusef Lateef (tenor
sax, flute) Danny Bank (baritone sax) Charles McCracken (cello) Roland Hanna (piano)
Charles Mingus (bass, arranger) Dannie Richmond (drums) Sticks Evans, Max Roach, George
Scott (percussion) Gunther Schuller (conductor)
Plaza Sound Studios, NYC, May 24, 1960
20093
Half-Mast Inhibition
20094
Mingus Fingus, No. 2
20095
Bemoanable Lady
Ted Curson (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Eric Dolphy (alto sax, bass clarinet, flute)
Booker Ervin, Joe Farrell (tenor sax) Yusef Lateef (tenor sax, flute) Paul Bley (piano -1,3,5)
Roland Hanna (piano -2,4) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) Lorraine
Cousins (vocals -1,3)
Plaza Sound Studios, NYC, May 25, 1960
1. 20100
Weird Nightmare
2. 20101
Prayer For Passive Resistance
3. 20102
Eclipse
4. 20103
Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me / I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
5. 20104
Take The "A" Train / Exactly Like You
** also issued on Mercury SR 60627, (J) PHCE 6006. Limelight LM 82015, LS 86015
entitled "Mingus Revisited".
Charles Mingus - Mingus At Antibes (Atlantic SD 2-3001)

Ted Curson (trumpet) Eric Dolphy (alto sax, bass clarinet) Booker Ervin (tenor sax -1/4,6)
Bud Powell (piano -6) Charles Mingus (bass, piano -1/5, bass -6) Dannie Richmond (drums)
"Juan-les-Pins Jazz Festival", Antibes, France, July 13, 1960
1. 5260 |
Cry For Freedom (Prayer For Passive Resistance)
37622
2. 5261 |
Better Git Hit In Your Soul
37626
3. 5262 |
37621
4. 5263 |
Ummh! (Folk Forms I)
37625
5. 5264 |
What Love
37623
6. 5265 |
I'll Remember April
37624
** also issued on Affinity (E) CDAFF 778 entitled "Live".
Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Candid CJM 8005)

Ted Curson (trumpet) Eric Dolphy (alto sax, bass clarinet) Charles Mingus (bass, vocals)
Dannie Richmond (drums, vocals) Nat Hentoff (supervisor)
Nola Penthouse Sound Studio, NYC, October 20, 1960
Folk Forms, No. 1
Original Faubus Fables
What Love
All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your
Mother
** also issued on Candid CJS 9005; Barnaby Z 30561, BR 5012; America (F) 30 AM 6082;
Candid CS 9005, CCD 79005.
** part of Barnaby 2BR 6015; Mosaic MR4-111, MD3-111.
Charles Mingus - Mingus (Candid CJM 8021)

same session
Stormy Weather (take 1)
Ted Curson, Lonnie Hillyer (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper, Britt Woodman (trombone) Charles
McPherson (alto sax) Eric Dolphy (alto sax, bass clarinet, flute) Booker Ervin (tenor sax)
Nico Bunick (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) Nat Hentoff
(supervisor)
MDM
Ted Curson, Lonnie Hillyer (trumpet) Charles McPherson (alto sax) Eric Dolphy (alto sax,
bass clarinet) Booker Ervin (tenor sax) Paul Bley (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie
Richmond (drums) Nat Hentoff (supervisor)
Nola Penthouse Sound Studio, NYC, November 11, 1960
Lock 'Em Up
** also issued on Candid CJS 9021; Barnaby KZ 31034; Candid CS 9021, CCD 79021.
** part of Barnaby 2BR 6015; Mosaic MR4-111, MD3-111.
The Complete Candid Recordings Of Charles Mingus (Mosaic MR4-111)

Ted Curson (trumpet) Eric Dolphy (alto sax, bass clarinet) Charles Mingus (bass, vocals)
Dannie Richmond (drums, vocals) Nat Hentoff (supervisor)
Melody From The Drums
bass clarinet, flute) Nico Bunick (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
Nat Hentoff (supervisor)
Reincarnation Of A Love Bird, No. 1 (take ?)
** same contents as Candid CJM 8005 + CJM 8021 + 10 bonus tracks.
Eric Dolphy - Candid Dolphy (Candid CCD 79033)

same session
Reincarnation Of A Love Bird, No. 1 (take 1)
Roy Eldridge (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Eric Dolphy (alto sax) Tommy Flanagan
(piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Jo Jones (drums) Nat Hentoff (supervisor)
Body And Soul (take 2)
Charles Mingus - Mysterious Blues (Candid CCD 79042)

bass clarinet, flute) Nico Bunick (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
Nat Hentoff (supervisor)
Various Artists - The Jazz Life! (Candid CJM 8019)

bass clarinet, flute) Booker Ervin (tenor sax) Nico Bunick (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
Dannie Richmond (drums) Nat Hentoff (supervisor)
Vassarlean
Roy Eldridge (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Eric Dolphy (alto sax) Tommy Flanagan
(piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Jo Jones (drums) Nat Hentoff (supervisor)
R&R (take 1)
** also issued on Candid CJS 9019; Barnaby BR 5021; Candid CS 9019, CCD 79019.
Charles Mingus - Reincarnation Of A Love Bird (Candid CJM 8026)

Lonnie Hillyer (trumpet) Ted Curson (trumpet -2) Charles McPherson (alto sax) Eric Dolphy
(alto sax, bass clarinet -2) Booker Ervin (tenor sax) Paul Bley (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
Dannie Richmond (drums) Nat Hentoff (supervisor)
1.
Bugs (take 3)
2.
Roy Eldridge (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper (trombone -1) Eric Dolphy (alto sax -1) Tommy
Flanagan (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Jo Jones (drums) Nat Hentoff (supervisor)
1.
Body And Soul
2.
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (take 4)
** also issued on Candid CJS 9026, CS 9026, CCD 79026.
Jazz Artists Guild - Newport Rebels (Candid CJM 8022)

Roy Eldridge (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper (trombone -1) Eric Dolphy (alto sax -1) Tommy
Flanagan (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Jo Jones (drums) Nat Hentoff (supervisor)
1.
Mysterious Blues
2.
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (take 5)
3.
Me And You
** also issued on Candid CJS 9022; Barnaby BR 5022; Candid CS 9022, CCD 79022.
1961
Various Artists - Music From The Soundtrack 'All Night Long' (Fontana (E)
TFL 5179)
Tubby Hayes (vibes) Ray Dempsey (guitar) Charles Mingus (bass) Allan Ganley (drums)
soundtrack, London, England, June or July, 1961
24815
Noodlin'
** also issued on Fontana (E) STFL 591, (Eu) 680 971 TL; Epic LA 16032, BA 17032.
Dave Brubeck - Summit Sessions (Columbia C 30522)

Dave Brubeck (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
London, England, July 3, 1961
Non-Sectarian Blues
** also issued on CBS (Eu) S 64377.
Charles Mingus - The Complete 1961-1962 Birdland Broadcasts (Rare Live

Recordings (Eu) RLR 88661)
Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Yusef Lateef (tenor sax, flute) Roland Kirk (tenor sax, manzello,
stritch) Charles Mingus (piano) Doug Watkins (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) Pee Wee
Marquette (announcer)
Hog Callin' Blues (incomplete)
(announcer)
Dead Air With Symphony Sid
same personnel
Oh Lord, Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me, Drop It On
Themselves, Coz They Made It
Eat That Chicken (theme)
Richard Williams (trumpet) Charles McPherson (alto sax) Booker Ervin (tenor sax) Charles
Mingus (piano) Henry Grimes (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) "Symphony Sid" Torin
(announcer)
broadcast, "Birdland", NYC, May 5, 1962
Akiyoshi (piano) Henry Grimes, Charles Mingus (bass) "Symphony Sid" Torin (announcer)
Introduction By Symphony Sid
Charles Mingus - Mingus Oh, Yeah! (Atlantic LP 1377)

Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Booker Ervin (tenor sax) Roland Kirk (tenor sax, manzello,
stritch, siren, flute) Charles Mingus (piano, vocals, narrator) Doug Watkins (bass) Dannie
Richmond (drums)
5756
Devil Woman
5757
Ecclusiastics
5760
Hog Callin' Blues
5761
Oh Lord, Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me
5762
Passions Of A Man
5763
Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am
5766
Eat That Chicken
1962 (age 40)

Charles Mingus - Thelonious Monk - John Coltrane - Eric Dolphy (Europa
Jazz (It) EJ 1013)
Charles Mingus (bass) and others
"Birdland", NYC, February 9, 1962
unknown titles
Hooray For Charles Mingus (Session Disc 118)

(announcer)
Take The "A" Train
Fables Of Faubus
probably Ed Amour (trumpet) Don Butterfield (tuba) Charles McPherson (alto sax) Pepper
Adams (baritone sax) Jaki Byard (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
"Symphony Sid" Torin (announcer)
My Search (The Search) (I Can't Get Started)
Monk, Funk Or Vice Versa (Monk, Bunk And Vice Versa) (King Fish)
Please Don't Come Back From The Moon (Moonboy)
Charles Mingus - Tempo Di Jazz (Tempo Di Jazz (It) CDTJ 704)

Mingus (piano) Herman Wright (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) "Symphony Sid" Torin
(announcer)
Toshiko Akiyoshi (piano) Henry Grimes (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) Charles Mingus,
"Symphony Sid" Torin (announcer)
Reets And I
(announcer)
Monk, Funk Or Vice Versa (Monk, Funk And Vice Versa)
Mingus (piano) Henry Grimes (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) "Symphony Sid" Torin
(announcer)
Devil Woman
Akiyoshi (piano) Henry Grimes, Charles Mingus (bass) "Symphony Sid" Torin (announcer)
Tijuana Table Dance (Ysabel's Table Dance)
Duke Ellington - Money Jungle (United Artists UAJ 14017)

Duke Ellington (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach (drums)
Sound Makers, NYC, September 17, 1962
Money Jungle
Le Fleurs Africaines (African Flower)
Very Special
Warm Valley
Wig Wise
Caravan
Solitude
Duke Ellington - Money Jungle (Blue Note BT 85129)

same session
REM Blues
A Little Max (Parfait)
Switch Blade
Backward Country Boy Blues
** also issued on Blue Note CDP 7 46398 2.
Duke Ellington - Money Jungle (Blue Note CDP 7 46398 2)

same session
A Little Max (Parfait) (alternate take)
Solitude (alternate take)
** reissue of Blue Note BT 85129 + 2 bonus tracks.
Charlie Mingus - Town Hall Concert (United Artists UAJ 14024)
Ed Armour, Rolf Ericson, Lonnie Hillyer, Ernie Royal, Clark Terry, Richard Williams,
Snooky Young (trumpet) Eddie Bert, Jimmy Cleveland, Willie Dennis, Paul Faulise, Quentin
Jackson, Britt Woodman (trombone) Romeo Penque (oboe) Danny Bank (bass clarinet)
Buddy Collette, Eric Dolphy, Charlie Mariano, Charles McPherson (alto sax) George Berg,
Zoot Sims (tenor sax) Pepper Adams, Jerome Richardson (baritone sax) Warren Smith (vibes,
percussion) Toshiko Akiyoshi, Jaki Byard (piano) Les Spann (guitar) Milt Hinton (bass)
Charles Mingus (bass, narrator) Dannie Richmond (drums) Grady Tate (percussion) Bob
Hammer (arranger) Melba Liston (arranger, conductor)
"Town Hall", NYC, 1st set, October 12, 1962
Freedom, Part 2 (Clark In The Dark)
Epitaph, Part 1
Freedom, Part 1
Epitaph, Part 2
My Search
same personnel
"Town Hall", NYC, 2nd set, October 12, 1962
Duke's Choice (Don't Come Back)
In A Mellotone ('Finale)
Charles Mingus - The Complete Town Hall Concert (Blue Note 7243 8 28353
2)
same personnel
"Town Hall", NYC, 1st set, October 12, 1962
Osmotin' (Osmosis (incomplete))
Peggy's Blue Skylight (Peggy's Discovery)
same personnel
"Town Hall", NYC, 2nd set, October 12, 1962
Portrait
Please Don't Come Back From The Moon
Epitaph, Part 1 (alternate take)
Charles Mingus - A Night In Birdland Live, Vol. 2 (Yadeon (J) 501)

Ed Armour (trumpet) Charles McPherson (alto sax) Pepper Adams (baritone sax) Jaki Byard
(piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) "Symphony Sid" Torin (announcer)
Charles Mingus - Cecil Taylor (Ozone 19)

same session
Monk, Funk Or Vice Versa (Monk, Bunk And Vice Versa)
The Search
O.P. (O.P.O.P.)
Lonnie Hillyer (trumpet) Jimmy Owens or Hobert Dobsons (trumpet, flugelhorn) Julius
Watkins (French horn) Howard Johnson (tuba) Charles McPherson (alto sax) Charles Mingus
(bass, piano, recitation) Dannie Richmond (drums)
live in NYC, January 18, 1966
Majonet: The Arts Of Tatum And Freddie Webster / Don't Let It Happen Here
Cecil Taylor (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
Duet
1963
Charles Mingus - Five Mingus (Impulse! A-54)
Rolf Ericson, Richard Williams (trumpet) Quentin Jackson (trombone) Don Butterfield
(contrabass trombone, tuba) Jerome Richardson (flute, soprano, baritone sax) Dick Hafer
(flute, tenor sax) Charlie Mariano (alto sax) Jaki Byard (piano) Jay Barliner (guitar) Charles
Mingus (bass, piano) Dannie Richmond (drums)
11300
Celia
11303
I X Love
Eddie Preston, Richard Williams (trumpet) Britt Woodman (trombone) Don Butterfield (tuba)
Dick Hafer (flute, clarinet, tenor sax) Jerome Richardson (flute, soprano, baritone sax) Eric
Dolphy (alto sax, flute) Booker Ervin (tenor sax) Jaki Byard (piano) Charles Mingus (bass,
narrator) Walter Perkins (drums)
11756
Hora Decubitus
11757
Theme For Lester Young
11758
II B.S.
11760
Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul
11762
Mood Indigo
** also issued on Impulse! AS-54, IMPD-170.
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (Impulse! A-35)
Rolf Ericson, Richard Williams (trumpet) Quentin Jackson (trombone) Don Butterfield
(contrabass trombone, tuba) Jerome Richardson (flute, soprano, baritone sax) Dick Hafer
(flute, tenor sax) Charlie Mariano (alto sax) Jaki Byard (piano) Jay Barliner (guitar) Charles
Mingus (bass, piano) Dannie Richmond (drums)
11301
Track A - Solo Dancer: Stop! Look! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whiney!
11302
Track B - Duete Solo Dancers: Heart's Beat And Shades In Physical Embraces
Track C - Group Dancers: (Soul Fusion) Freedwoman And Oh, This
11304
Freedom's Slave Cries
Mode D - Trio And Group Dancers: Stop! Look! And Sing Songs Of
11317
Revolutions!
Mode E - Single Solos And Group Dance: Saint And Sinner John In
Merriment On Battle Front
Mode F - Group And Solo Dance: Of Love, Rain, And Passioned Revolt, Then
11319
Farewell, My Belove, Till It's Freedom Day
** also issued on Impulse! AS-35, IMPD-174.
11318
Charles Mingus - Mingus Plays Piano (Impulse! A-60)

NYC, June 30, 1963
90096
Myself When I Am Real
90097
I Can't Get Started
90098
Body And Soul
90099
Roland Kirk's Message
90100
Memories Of You
90101
She's Just Miss Popular Hybrid
90102
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Silk Blues
90103
Meditations For Moses
90104
Old Portrait
90105
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
90106
Compositional Theme Story...: Medleys / Anthems And Folklore
** also issued on Impulse! AS-60; MCA MCA-29067; Impulse! IMPD-217.
Various Artists - The Definitive Jazz Scene, Vol. 1 (Impulse! A-99)

Eddie Preston, Richard Williams (trumpet) Britt Woodman (trombone) Don Butterfield (tuba)
Dick Hafer (flute, clarinet, tenor sax) Jerome Richardson (flute, soprano, baritone sax) Eric
Dolphy (alto sax, flute) Booker Ervin (tenor sax) Jaki Byard (piano) Charles Mingus (bass,
narrator) Walter Perkins (drums)
11759
Freedom
** also issued on Impulse! AS-99.
1964
Charles Mingus Sextet With Eric Dolphy - Cornell 1964 (Blue Note 0946 3
92210 2 8)
Johnny Coles (trumpet) Eric Dolphy (alto sax, bass clarinet, flute) Clifford Jordan (tenor sax)
Jaki Byard (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
"Cornell University", Ithaca, NY, March 18, 1964
Opening
ATFW You
Sophisticated Lady
Fables Of Faubus
Orange Wat The Colour Of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk

Take The "A" Train
Meditations
So Long Eric
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Jitterbug Waltz
Charles Mingus - Town Hall Concert 1964, Vol. 1 (Mingus JWS 005)
same personnel
"Town Hall", NYC, April 4, 1964
So Long Eric
Meditations (Praying With Eric, Part 1)
Meditations (Praying With Eric, Part 2)
** also issued on America (F) 30 AM 6140. Original Jazz Classics OJC-042, OJCCD-042-2
entitled "Town Hall Concert".
Charles Mingus - Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Vol. 1 (Ulysse Musique (F)

AROC 50506/07)
same personnel
"Concertgebouw", Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 10, 1964
Parkeriana (Dedicated To A Genius)
So Long Eric
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk
Meditations (Meditation On A Pair Of Wire Cutters)
Charles Mingus - Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Vol. 2 (Ulysse Musique (F)

AROC 50608)
same session
"Concertgebouw", Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 10, 1964
Fables Of Faubus, Part 1
A.T.F.W.U.S.A. (A.T.F.W.Y.O.U.)
Sophisticated Lady
Charles Mingus Sextet Live In Oslo 1964, Vol. 1 (Landscape (F) LS2-913)
same personnel
"University Aula", Oslo, Norway, April 12, 1964
Fables Of Faubus
Charles Mingus - Live In Oslo 1964 Featuring Eric Dolphy (Jazz Up (It) JU
307)
same session
So Long Eric
Ow! (Parkeriana (incomplete))
Take The "A" Train
Charles Mingus Sextet Live In Oslo 1964, Vol. 2 (Landscape (F) LS2-919)
same session
Meditations
Parkeriana
Charles Mingus Sextet Live In Stockholm 1964 (Royal Jazz (D) RJD 518)
same personnel
"Konserthuset", Stockholm, Sweden, April 13, 1964
Meditations
So Long Eric
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Fables Of Faubus (Fables For Faubus)
same personnel
Stockholm, Sweden, April 13, 1964
So Long Eric (rehearsal take)
Meditations (false start) (rehearsal take)
Charles Mingus Sextet Live In Copenhagen 1964 (Landscape (F) LS2-905)

same personnel
"Old Fellow Palaet's Store Sal", Copenhagen, Denmark, April 14, 1964
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress
A.T.F.W.U.S.A.
Charles Mingus - Astral Weeks (Moon (It) MLP 016-1)

same session
"Old Fellow Palaet's Store Sal", Copenhagen, Denmark, April 14, 1964
Meditations
Fables Of Faubus
** also issued on Moon (It) MCD 016-2.
Charles Mingus Orchestra With Eric Dolphy 1964, Vol. 1 - Hope So

Eric (Ingo (It) ten)
same personnel
Bremen, West Germany, April 16, 1964
So Long Eric (Hope So Eric, Part 1)
So Long Eric (Hope So Eric, Part 2)
Charles Mingus Sextet Live In Europe (Unique Jazz UJ 23)

Johnny Coles (trumpet -2) Eric Dolphy (alto sax, bass clarinet, flute -2) Clifford Jordan (tenor
sax -2) Jaki Byard (piano) Charles Mingus (bass -2) Dannie Richmond (drums -2)
1.
A.T.F.W.U.S.A.
2.
Sophisticated Lady
Charles Mingus Orchestra With Eric Dolphy, Vol. 2 - Fables Of Faubus (Ingo
(It) thirteen)
Johnny Coles (trumpet) Eric Dolphy (alto sax, bass clarinet, flute) Clifford Jordan (tenor sax)
Jaki Byard (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
Charles Mingus Orchestra With Eric Dolphy, Vol. 3 - Parkeriana (Ingo (It)
fifteen)
same session
Meditations
Ow! (Parkeriana)
The Great Concert Of Charles Mingus (America (F) 30 AM 003-005)

same personnel
"Salle Wagram", Paris, France, April 17, 1964
So Long Eric, Part 1 (Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Part 1)
So Long Eric, Part 2 (Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Part 2)
Eric Dolphy (alto sax, bass clarinet, flute) Clifford Jordan (tenor sax) Jaki Byard (piano)
"Theatre Des Champs-Elysees", Paris, France, April 18, 1964
Intro And Presentation
Parkeriana
Meditations (Meditation For Integration)

Sophisticated Lady
** also issued on Prestige P-34001.
Charlie Mingus - Meditation (France's Concert (F) FC 102)

same personnel
Meditations
Fables Of Faubus
Charles Mingus - Live In Paris 1964, Vol. 2 (France's Concert (F) FC 110)
same session
Parkeriana
Charles Mingus - Mingus In Europe, Vol. I (enja (G) 3049)

same personnel
"Wuppertal Townhall", Wuppertal, West Germany, April 26, 1964
Fables Of Faubus
I Can't Get Started (Starting)
** also issued on enja (G) CD 3049-2.
Charles Mingus - Mingus In Europe, Vol. I (enja (G) CD 3049-2)

same session
Meditations (Meditation On A Pair Of Wire Cutters)
** reissue of enja (G) 3049 + 1 bonus track.
Charles Mingus - Mingus In Europe, Vol. II (enja (G) 3077)

same session
Peggy's Blue Skylight (Charlemagne)
** also issued on enja (G) CD 3077-2.
Charles Mingus - Mingus In Europe, Vol. II (enja (G) CD 3077-2)
same session
So Long Eric
** reissue of enja (G) 3077 + 1 bonus track.
Charles Mingus - Mingus In Stuttgart, April 28, 1964 Concert (Unique Jazz
UJ 007/08)
same personnel
"Mozart-Saal/Liederhalle", Stuttgart, West Germany, April 28, 1964
So Long Eric
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk (Orange Was The Color
Of Her Hair)
Meditations
Charles Mingus - Mingus In Stuttgart, April 28, 1964 Concert (Unique Jazz
UJ 009)
same session
"Mozart-Saal/Liederhalle", Stuttgart, West Germany, April 28, 1964
A.T.F.W.U.S.A.
Sophisticated Lady
Charles Mingus - Right Now: Live At The Jazz Workshop (Fantasy LP 6017)
John Handy (alto sax -1) Clifford Jordan (tenor sax) Jane Getz (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
"The Jazz Workshop", San Francisco, CA, June 2 & 3, 1964
1.
New Fables
2.
Meditation (For A Pair Of Wire Cutters)
** also issued on Fantasy LP 86017; Original Jazz Classics OJC-237, OJCCD-237-2.
America (F) 30 AM 6063 entitled "Right Now".
Charles Mingus - Mingus At Monterey (Mingus JWS 001/02)

Lonnie Hillyer (trumpet) Bobby Bryant, Melvin Moore (trumpet -2) Lou Blackburn
(trombone -2) Red Callender (tuba -2) Buddy Collette (flute, piccolo, alto sax -2) Jack Nimitz
(bass clarinet, baritone sax -2) Charles McPherson (alto sax) John Handy (tenor sax -1) Jaki
Byard (piano) Charles Mingus (bass -1, bass, piano -2) Dannie Richmond (drums)
"Monterey Jazz Festival", Monterey, CA, September 20, 1964
Duke Ellington Medley: I've Got It Bad / In A Sentimental Mood / All Too
Soon / Mood Indigo / Sophisticated Lady / Take The "A" Train / Orange Was
The Color Of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk
2.
Meditations On Integration
** also issued on America (F) 30 AM 001-002.
1.
1965
Charles Mingus - My Favorite Quintet, Vol. 1: Tyrone Guthrie
Theater (Mingus JWS 009)
Lonnie Hillyer (trumpet) Charles McPherson (alto sax) Jaki Byard (piano) Charles Mingus
"Tyrone Guthrie Theater", Minneapolis, MN, summer 1965
So Long Eric
Medley: She's Funny That Way / Embraceable You / I Can't Get Started /
Ghost Of A Chance / Old Portrait / Cocktails For Two
** also issued on America (F) 30 AM 6105 entitled "Town Hall Concert".
Charles Mingus - Music Written For Monterey 1965. Not Heard... Played In
Its Entirety At UCLA, Vol. 1&2 (Mingus JWS 013/014)
Hobart Dotson (trumpet -1/3,5,7/9) Lonnie Hillyer (trumpet -1/3,5/9) Jimmy Owens (trumpet,
flugelhorn -1/3,5,7/9) Julius Watkins (French horn -1/3,5,7/9) Howard Johnson (tuba 1/3,5,7/9) Charles McPherson (alto sax -1/3,5/9) Charles Mingus (bass, piano, narrator)
Dannie Richmond (drums -1/3,5/9)
"Royce Hall", University Of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, December 25, 1965
1.
Meditation On Inner Piece, Part 1
2.
Don't Be Afraid, The Clown's Afraid Too
3.
Don't Let It Happen Here
4.
Meditation On Inner Piece, Part 2
Once Upon A Time, There Was A Holding Corporation Called Old America,
5.
Part 1/3
6.
Ode To Bird And Dizzy
7.
They Trespass The Land Of The Sacred Sioux
8.
The Arts Of Tatum And Freddie Webster
9.
Muskrat Ramble
1970
Charles Mingus - Dizzy Atmosphere: Live At Historic Slug's, Vol. 1 (Jazz
View (G) J-Bop 043)
Bill Hardman (trumpet) Jimmy Vass (alto sax) Charles McPherson (alto sax, flute) Charles
Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
"Slugs' Saloon", NYC, March 31, 1970

Ray's Idea
So Long Eric
If I Should Lose You
I Can't Get Started
Dizzy Atmosphere
Better Git It In Your Soul
Charles Mingus - Fables Of Faubus: Live At Historic Slug's, Vol. 2 (Jazz

View (G) J-Bop 044)
same session
"Slugs' Saloon", NYC, March 31, 1970
Fables Of Faubus
In A Sentimental Mood
Take The "A" Train
Billie's Bounce / Koko
O.P.
Greensleeves
Charlie Mingus - Statements (Joker (J) UPS-2072-KR)

Eddie Preston (trumpet) Charles McPherson (alto sax) Bobby Jones (tenor sax) Jaki Byard
(piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
"Teatro Lirico", Milan, Italy, October 25, 1970
Orange Was The Colour Of Her Dress
The Man Who Never Sleeps
O.P.
** also issued on Lotus (It) ORL 8296, LOP 14.066; Passport (It) LPPS 11.108.
Charles Mingus - Paris TNP (Ulysse Musique (F))

same personnel
"Theatre National Populaire Du Palais De Chaillot", Paris, France, October 28, 1970
O.P. (Tribute To Oscar Pettiford)
Ellington Medley: In A Sentimental Mood / Sophisticated Lady / Mood Indigo
/ Take The "A" Train
Charles Mingus - In Paris 1970 (DIW (J) DIW-326)

same session
"Theatre National Populaire Du Palais De Chaillot", Paris, France, October 28, 1970
Fables Of Faubus
She's Funny That Way
Charles Mingus In Paris: The Complete America Session (Sunnyside SSC

3065)
same personnel
Studio Decca, Paris, France, October 31, 1970
Reincarnation Of A Love Bird: Warm Up And First False Start
Reincarnation Of A Love Bird: Second False Start
Reincarnation Of A Love Bird: Third False Start
Reincarnation Of A Love Bird (incomplete)
Blue Bird (incomplete)
Blue Bird: Reprise
Pithecanthropus Erectus: Incomplete (take 1)
Pithecanthropus Erectus: Rehearsal
Pithecanthropus Erectus: False Start
Pithecanthropus Erectus: To The End
Pithecanthropus Erectus: Mingus Explanations, Restart
Peggy's Blue Skylight: First False Start
Peggy's Blue Skylight: Second False Start
Peggy's Blue Skylight: Third False Start And Rehearsal
Peggy's Blue Skylight: (alternate take) (fast version)
Love Is A Dangerous Necessity: First False Start
Love Is A Dangerous Necessity: Second False Start
** same contents as America (F) 30 AM 6109 + 30 AM 6110 + 17 bonus tracks.
Charles Mingus - Blue Bird (America (F) 30 AM 6110)

same session
I Left My Heart In San Francisco
Blue Bird
** part of Sunnyside SSC 3065.
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus (America (F) 30 AM 6109)

same session
Pithecanthropus Erectus
Love Is A Dangerous Necessity
** part of Sunnyside SSC 3065.
Charles Mingus Sextet In Berlin (Beppo (E) BEP 508)

same personnel
Berlin, West Germany, November 5, 1970
History
O.P.
1971
Charles Mingus With Orchestra (Nippon Columbia (J) NCB-7008)
Eddie Preston (trumpet) Bobby Jones (tenor sax) Masahiko Sato (piano) Charles Mingus
(bass, composer, arranger) with Toshiyuki Miyama And His New Herd Orchestra, Toshiyuki
Miyama (conductor) Jaki Byard (arranger)
Nippon Columbia's Studio, Tokyo, Japan, January 14, 1971
Portrait
O.P.
Charles Mingus - Newport 1971 (Cool Jazz (J) 798)

Lonnie Hillyer (trumpet) Charles McPherson (alto sax) Bobby Jones (tenor sax) John Foster
(piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Virgil Day (drums)
"Newport Jazz Festival", Newport, RI, July 3, 1971
Intro By George Wein, Father Norman O'Connor
Pithecanthropus Erectus
Cocktails For Two
O.P.
Intro By Father Norman O'Connor
Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music (Columbia KC 31039)

Lonnie Hillyer, Jimmy Nottingham, Joe Wilder, Snooky Young (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper
(trombone) Julius Watkins (French horn) Charles McPherson (alto sax) Jerry Dodgion, Bobby
Jones, Hal McKusick, James Moody (reeds) Charles McCracken (cello) Jaki Byard, John
Foster, Roland Hanna (piano) Ron Carter, Richard Davis, Milt Hinton (bass) Charles Mingus
(bass, composer, arranger) Dannie Richmond (drums) Teo Macero (conductor, alto sax) and
others
The Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers
The I Of Hurricane Sue

same personnel
Hobo Ho
same personnel
same personnel
The Chill Of Death
Adagio Ma Non Troppo
** also issued on Columbia/Legacy CK 48910.
Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music (Columbia/Legacy CK 48910)

same personnel
Taurus In The Arena Of Life
** reissue of Columbia KC 31039 + 1 bonus track.
1972 (age 50)

Charles Mingus And Friends In Concert (Columbia KG 31614)
Jon Faddis, Lonnie Hillyer, Lloyd Michaels, Eddie Preston (trumpet) Eddie Bert (bass
trombone) Richard Berg, Sharon Moe (French horn) Robert Stewart (tuba) Howard Johnson
(tuba, bass sax) James Moody (flute) Lee Konitz, Charles McPherson, Richie Perri (alto sax)
Gene Ammons, George Dorsey (tenor sax) Bobby Jones (tenor sax, clarinet) Gerry Mulligan
(baritone sax) John Foster, Randy Weston (piano) Milt Hinton (bass) Charles Mingus (bass,
arranger) Joe Chambers (drums) Dizzy Gillespie, Honey Gordon (vocals) Bill Cosby (vocals,
announcer) Sy Johnson (arranger) Teo Macero (arranger, conductor)
"Philharmonic Hall", Lincoln Center, NYC, February 4, 1972
CO112563 Honeysuckle Rose
CO112564 Jump Monk
CO112565 E.S.P.
CO112566 Ecclusiastics
CO112567 Eclipse
CO112568 Us Is Two
CO112570 Mingus Blues
CO112571 Little Royal Suite
CO112574 E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too
CO113019 Ool-Ya-Koo
** also issued on Columbia/Legacy C2K 64975.
Charles Mingus And Friends In Concert (Columbia/Legacy C2K 64975)
same session
"Philharmonic Hall", Lincoln Center, NYC, February 4, 1972
Introduction By Bill Cosby
CO112569 Taurus In The Arena Of Life (Number One Grandson)
Introduction To Little Royal Suite By Bill Cosby
Introduction To Strollin' By Bill Cosby
CO112572 Strollin'
CO112573 The I Of Hurricane Sue
Portrait
** reissue of Columbia KG 31614 + 8 bonus tracks.
Various Artists - Newport In New York '72: The Jam Sessions, Vol.
1&2 (Cobblestone CST 9025-2)
Cat Anderson, Jimmy Owens (trumpet) Charles McPherson (alto sax) Buddy Tate (tenor sax)
Roland Hanna (piano) Milt Buckner (organ) Charles Mingus (bass) Alan Dawson (drums)
Radio City Music Hall, NYC, July 6, 1972
25534
Jumpin' At The Woodside
25535
Lo-Slo Blues
** part of Cobblestone CST 9032-6.
Charles Mingus - Nice Jazz Festival 1972 (Blue Mark Music (J) BMM-025)
Jon Faddis (trumpet) Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet, vocals -2,3) Charles McPherson (alto sax)
Bobby Jones (tenor sax, clarinet) John Foster (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Roy Brooks
(drums, musical saw)
"Nice Jazz Festival", Nice, France, July 20, 1972
1.
Fables Of Faubus
2.
Blues Medley Jam
3.
Pops (When The Saints Go Marchin' In)
Various Artists - After Hours: The Great Pescara Jam Sessions (Port's Song
(It) CD L1003)
Charles McPherson (alto sax) Bobby Jones, Ben Webster (tenor sax) Kenny Drew (piano)
Charles Mingus (bass) Roy Brooks (drums)
"Pescara Jazz", Pescara, Italy, July 29 or 30, 1972
For All We Know
Sophisticated Lady / I Can't Get Started
Blues In The Closet
The Days Of Wine And Roses
Charles Mingus - Live In Holland 1972 (Blue Mark Music (J) BMM-041/042)
Jon Faddis (trumpet) Charles McPherson (alto sax) Bobby Jones (tenor sax) John Foster
(piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Roy Brooks (drums, musical saw)
Loosdrecht, Netherlands, August 12, 1972
Intro
Fables Of Faubus
Mindreaders Convention In Milano (My Music Emission)
Cherokee (theme)
Charles McPherson (alto sax) Dexter Gordon (tenor sax) John Foster (piano) Charles Mingus
(bass) Roy Brooks (drums, musical saw)
"Jazzhus Montmartre", Copenhagen, Denmark, August 28, 1972
Introduction By Dexter Gordon
Charles Mingus - Lost Ronnie Scott's Jam (Blue Mark Music (J) BMM047/048/049)
Jon Faddis (trumpet) Charles McPherson (alto sax) Bobby Jones (tenor sax, clarinet) John
Foster (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Roy Brooks (drums, musical saw)
"Ronnie Scott's Club", London, England, August 14 or 15, 1972
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress (alternate ending)
Blues In F
Mindreaders Convention In Milano (My Music Emission) / Koko (theme)
Air Mail Special (theme)
Fables Of Faubus
Charles Mingus - Rare Live Broadcasts 1972 & 1973 (Cool Jazz (J) 2156)
same personnel
"Jazz Workshop, Jazz Now Festival", "Kongress Saal Des Deutschen Museums", Munich,
West Germany, August 17, 1972
Interview (Mingus And McPherson)
Ronald Hampton (trumpet, French horn) George Adams (tenor sax) Don Pullen (piano)
Charles Mingus (bass) Doug Hammond (drums)
"Newport Jazz Festival In New York City", "Apollo Theatre", NYC, July 3, 1973
Announcement
Fables Of Faubus
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Charles Mingus - Stormy And Funky Blues (Moon (It) MCD 064-2)
Jon Faddis (trumpet) Charles McPherson (alto sax) Bobby Jones (tenor sax, clarinet) John
"Jazz Workshop, Jazz Now Festival", "Kongress Saal Des Deutschen Museums", Munich,
West Germany, August 17, 1972
Blues Medley: John's Blues (Blues For Some Bones) / Blues For Roy's Saw /
Noddin' Ya Head Blues
George Adams (tenor sax, vocals) Hamiet Bluiett (baritone sax) Don Pullen (piano) Charles
"Umbria Jazz Festival", "Piazza Del Popolo", Todi, Italy, July 28, 1974
Flowers For A Lady (Angry Reeds)
Devil Blues (Stormy And Funky Blues)
Opus 3 (Squeezed Strings)
Jack Walrath (trumpet) Ricky Ford (tenor sax) Bob Neloms (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
Milan, Italy, July 20, 1977
Cumbia And Jazz Fusion (incomplete)
Charles Mingus - Live In Chateauvallon, 1972 (France's Concert (F) FCD

134)
Charles McPherson (alto sax) John Foster (piano, vocals) Charles Mingus (bass) Roy Brooks
(drums, musical saw)
live in Chateauvallon, France, August 22, 1972
Duke Ellington Medley: Blues In G (bass solo) / In A Sentimental Mood /
Sophisticated Lady / Unknown Ellington Tune / Mood Indigo / Take The "A"
Train
Fables Of Faubus
Diane (Body And Soul)
Blues Medley: John's Blues (Blues For Some Bones) / Blues For Roy's Saw /
Charles Mingus Quintet Featuring Dexter Gordon (White Label)

Charles McPherson (alto sax) Dexter Gordon (tenor sax) John Foster (piano) Charles Mingus
"Jazzhus Montmartre", Copenhagen, Denmark, August 28, 1972
Jelly Roll Muddy Blues
Charles Mingus - Blue Skylark (Original Revival Collection 8256)

Joe Gardner (trumpet) Hamiet Bluiett (baritone sax, flute) John Foster (piano) Charles Mingus
"Jazz Jamboree 72", Warsaw, Poland, October 20, 1972
Blues For A Saw
Various Artists - Jazz Jamboree '72 (Polskie Nagrania Muza (Polish) XL

0929)
same session
"Jazz Jamboree 72", Warsaw, Poland, October 20, 1972
Celia (incomplete)
** also issued on Polskie Nagrania Muza (Polish) SXL 0929.
Charles Mingus - Stockholm 1964 And Berlin 1972 (Tribal Blast (J) DVD007)
Joe Gardner (trumpet) Cat Anderson (trumpet -3) Hamiet Bluiett (baritone sax, flute) John
"Berliner Jazztage", "Philharmonie", Berlin, West Germany, November 5, 1972
1.
2.
Celia
3.
Perdido
1973
Charles Mingus - Jazz Workshop 1973 (Blue Mark Music (J) BMM-032)
Joe Gardner (trumpet) John Stubblefield (reeds) Don Pullen (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) C.
Scoby Stroman (drums)
"The Jazz Workshop", Boston, MA, January 23, 1973
Fables Of Faubus
unknown title
C Jam Blues
Charles Mingus - Mingus Moves (Atlantic SD 1653)

Ronald Hampton (trumpet, tambourine) George Adams (tenor sax, flute) Don Pullen (piano,
organ) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) Honey Gordon, Doug Hammond
(vocals -3) Sy Johnson (arranger)
NYC, October 29, 30 & 31, 1973
1. 28318
Canon
2. 28319
Opus IV
3. 28320
Moves
4. 28321
Wee
5. 28322
Flowers For A Lady
6. 28323
Newcomer
7. 28324
Opus III
** also issued on Rhino R2 71454.
Charles Mingus - Mingus Moves (Rhino R2 71454)

Ronald Hampton (trumpet, tambourine) George Adams (tenor sax, flute) Don Pullen (piano,
organ) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) Sy Johnson (arranger)
NYC, October 29, 30 & 31, 1973
28325
The Call
28326
Big Alice
** reissue of Atlantic SD 1653 + 2 bonus tracks.
1974
Charles Mingus - Mingus At Carnegie Hall (Atlantic SD 1667)
Jon Faddis (trumpet) Charles McPherson (alto sax) John Handy (alto, tenor sax) George
Adams (tenor sax) Rahsaan Roland Kirk (tenor sax, stritch) Hamiet Bluiett (baritone sax) Don
Pullen (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums)
"Carnegie Hall", NYC, January 19, 1974
29421
Perdido
29422
C Jam Blues
Charles Mingus - Midnight Jam (Cool Jazz (J) 2187)

Howard McGhee (trumpet) Eddie Daniels, Joe Farrell, Dewey Redman (tenor sax) Michal
Urbaniak (violin) Roland Hanna (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Freddie Waits (drums)
George Wein (announcer)
"Newport Jazz Festival In New York 1974", "Radio City Music Hall", NYC, July 4, 1974
Introduction By George Wein
Ballads Medley
The Theme
Charles Mingus - Umbria Jazz Festival 1974 (Deep Thought (J) DTVD-0006)
George Adams (tenor sax, vocals) Hamiet Bluiett (baritone sax) Don Pullen (piano) Charles
"Umbria Jazz Festival", "Piazza Del Popolo", Todi, Italy, July 28, 1974
Opening
Intro / Take The "A" Train, Part 1
Take The "A" Train, Part 2
Ending
Charles Mingus - Changes One (Atlantic SD 1677)

Marcus Belgrave, Jack Waltrath (trumpet) George Adams (tenor sax) Don Pullen (piano)
31056
Sue's Changes
31058
Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love
Jack Waltrath (trumpet) George Adams (tenor sax) Don Pullen (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
31055
Remember Rockefeller At Attica
31057
Devil Blues
Charles Mingus - Changes Two (Atlantic SD 1678)

same session
31063
For Harry Carney
Jack Waltrath (trumpet) George Adams (tenor sax) Don Pullen (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
Dannie Richmond (drums) Jackie Paris (vocals -4) Sy Johnson (arranger -4)
1. 31059
Free Cell Block F, 'Tis Nazi U.S.A.
2. 31060
3. 31061
Black Bats And Poles
4. 31062
1975
Charles Mingus - Village Vanguard 1975 (Blue Mark Music (J) BMM017/018)
Jack Walrath (trumpet) George Adams (tenor sax, vocals) Don Pullen (piano) Charles Mingus
"Village Vanguard", NYC, April 15, 1975
Fables Of Nixon, Rockefeller And Ford - Oh Lord, Help Mr. Ford (Fables Of
Faubus)
For Harry Carney
Devil Blues
Nobody Knows
Cherokee (theme) (Ko Ko)
Charles Mingus - Bremen 1975 (Cool Jazz (J) 346/347)

Jack Walrath (trumpet) George Adams (tenor sax) Don Pullen (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
"Postaula", Bremen, West Germany, July 9, 1975
Sue's Changes
For Harry Carney
Black Bats And Poles

Fables Of Faubus
Theme (Ko Ko)
Devil Blues
Charles Mingus - Live At Montreux (Eagle Vision EREVDV449)

Jack Walrath (trumpet) Benny Bailey (trumpet -4,5) George Adams (tenor sax, flute, vocals)
Gerry Mulligan (baritone sax -4,5) Don Pullen (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie
Richmond (drums)
"Montreux Jazz Festival", "Casino De Montreux", Switzerland, July 20, 1975
1.
Devil Blues
2.
3.
Sue's Changes
4.
5.
Take The "A" Train
Charles Mingus - Berliner Jazztage 1975 (Cool Jazz (J) 2250)

Jack Walrath (trumpet) George Adams (tenor sax) Hugh Lawson (piano) Charles Mingus
"Berliner Jazztage 1975", Berlin, West Germany, November 8, 1975
For Harry Carney
Sue's Changes
Charles Mingus - Jazz Jamboree And More (Cool Jazz (J) 966)
same personnel
"Dom Sindicata (Union Hall)", Belgrade, Yugoslavia, November 13, 1975
Sue's Changes
Nobody Knows
Cherokee (theme)
Charles Mingus - Passions Of A Man: An Anthology Of His Atlantic

Recordings (Atlantic SD 3-600)
Charles Mingus (interviewee) Ilhan Mimaroglu (interviewer)
1975
Mingus On Mingus
1976
Charles Mingus - Keystone Korner (Jazz Door (G) JD 1219)
Jack Walrath (trumpet) George Adams (tenor sax) Danny Mixon (piano) Charles Mingus
"Keystone Korner", San Francisco, CA, March, 1976
Devil Blues
For Harry Carney
Charles Mingus - Live At Sankei Hall 1976 (Couriers Of Jazz (J) COJ-006)
Jack Walrath (trumpet) Ricky Ford (tenor sax) Danny Mixon (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
"Sankei Hall", Osaka, Japan, July 29, 1976
Opus Four
Diane
Nobody Knows
Fables Of Faubus / Cherokee
Ysabel's Table Dance
Cherokee
For Harry Carney
1977
Charles Mingus - Three Or Four Shades Of Blues (Atlantic SD 1700)
Jack Walrath (trumpet) Ricky Ford (tenor sax) George Coleman (tenor, alto sax) Bob Neloms
(piano) Philip Catherine, Larry Coryell (guitar) Charles Mingus, George Mraz (bass) Dannie
Richmond (drums) Paul Jeffrey (arranger)
NYC, March 9, 1977
33950
Better Git Hit In Your Soul
33951
33952
Jack Walrath (trumpet) Ricky Ford (tenor sax) George Coleman (tenor, alto sax) Bob Neloms,
Jimmy Rowles (piano) Larry Coryell, John Scofield (guitar) Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie
Richmond (drums)
NYC, March 10, 1977
33953
Three Or Four Shades Of Blues
Jack Walrath (trumpet) Sonny Fortune (alto sax) Ricky Ford (tenor sax) George Coleman
(tenor, alto sax) Bob Neloms (piano) Philip Catherine, John Scofield (guitar) Ron Carter,
Charles Mingus (bass) Dannie Richmond (drums) Paul Jeffrey (arranger)
33954
Nobody Knows
Charles Mingus - Cumbia And Jazz Fusion (Atlantic SD 8801)
Jack Walrath (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper (trombone, bass trombone) Mauricio Smith (flute,
piccolo, soprano, alto sax) Paul Jeffrey (oboe, tenor sax) Gene Scholtes (bassoon) Gary
Anderson (contrabass, bass clarinet) Ricky Ford (tenor sax) Bob Neloms (piano) Bradley
Cunningham, Ricky Ford, Jack Walrath (South American rhythm instruments) Charles
Mingus (bass, South American rhythm instruments, vocals, arranger) Dannie Richmond
(drums) Candido, Daniel Gonzales, Ray Mantilla, Alfredo Ramirez (congas)
NYC, March 10, 1977
34956
Cumbia And Jazz Fusion
Jack Walrath (trumpet) Dino Piana (valve trombone) Anastasio Del Bono (oboe, English
horn) Pasquale Sabatelli (bassoon) Roberto Laneri (bass clarinet) Quarto Maltoni, Giancarlo
Maurino (alto sax) George Adams (tenor sax, alto flute) Danny Mixon (piano, organ) Charles
Mingus (bass, arranger) Dannie Richmond (drums)
Dirmaphon Studio, Rome, Italy, March 31 & April 1, 1977
34957
Music For "Todo Modo"
** also issued on Rhino R2 71785.
Charles Mingus - Cumbia And Jazz Fusion (Rhino R2 71785)

NYC, March 1, 1977
Wedding March/Slow March (take 9)
Wedding March/Slow March (take 12)
** reissue of Atlantic SD 8801 + 2 bonus tracks.
Charles Mingus - Changes Live (Blue Mark Music (J) BMM-053)

Jack Walrath (trumpet) Ricky Ford (tenor sax) Bob Neloms (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 3, 1977
For Harry Carney
Charles Mingus - Spain '77 (Excelsior ELP 100)

same personnel
Sitges, Spain, July 16, 1977
For Harry Carney
Cumbia And Jazz Fusion
Lionel Hampton Presents: The Music Of Charles Mingus (Who's Who In

Jazz WWLP 21005)
Woodie Shaw, Jack Walrath (trumpet) Peter Matt (French horn) Richard Ford, Paul Jeffrey
(tenor sax) Gerry Mulligan (baritone, soprano sax) Lionel Hampton (vibes) Bob Nelums
(piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Danny Richmond (drums) Paul Jeffrey (arranger)
Studio 21, NYC, November 6, 1977
Just For Laughs, Part 1
Caroline Keikki Mingus
Slop
Just For Laughs, Part 2
Fables Of Faubus
Duke Ellington's The Sound Of Love
Farwell Farewell
Charles Mingus/Earl Fatha Hines/Lionel Hampton - Giants Of Jazz, Volume

Two (Who's Who In Jazz WWLP 21014)
same session
Studio 21, NYC, November 6, 1977
So Long Eric
1978
Charles Mingus - Something Like A Bird (Atlantic SD 8805)
Randy Brecker, Mike Davis (trumpet) Jack Walrath (trumpet, arranger) Slide Hampton,
Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Lee Konitz, Charles McPherson, Akira Ohmori (alto sax) Ken
Hitchcock (alto, soprano sax) Daniel Block, Michael Brecker, George Coleman, Ricky Ford
(tenor sax) Pepper Adams, Ronnie Cuber, Craig Purpura (baritone sax) Bob Neloms (piano)
Kenny Werner (electric piano) Larry Coryell, Ted Dunbar, Danny Toan, Jack Wilkins (guitar)
Eddie Gomez, George Mraz (bass) Joe Chambers, Dannie Richmond (drums) Ray Mantilla
(percussion) Paul Jeffrey (conductor) Charles Mingus (composer, arranger)
36884
Something Like A Bird, Part 1&2
Mike Davis (trumpet) Jack Walrath (trumpet, arranger) Jimmy Knepper, Keith O'Quinn
(trombone) Lee Konitz, Yoshiaki Malta, Akira Ohmori (alto sax) Ken Hitchcock (alto,
soprano sax) Daniel Block, Ricky Ford, John Tank (tenor sax) Pepper Adams, Ronnie Cuber,
Craig Purpura (baritone sax) Bob Neloms (piano) Larry Coryell, Ted Dunbar, Danny Toan,
Jack Wilkins (guitar) Eddie Gomez (bass) Joe Chambers, Dannie Richmond (drums) Charles
Mingus (composer, arranger) Paul Jeffrey (arranger, conductor)
36855
Farewell, Farwell
Charles Mingus - Me, Myself An Eye (Atlantic SD 8803)

Randy Brecker, Mike Davis (trumpet) Jack Walrath (trumpet, arranger) Slide Hampton,
Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Akira Ohmori (alto sax) Ken Hitchcock (alto, soprano sax)
Daniel Block, Michael Brecker, George Coleman, Ricky Ford (tenor sax) Pepper Adams,
Ronnie Cuber, Craig Purpura (baritone sax) Bob Neloms (piano) Larry Coryell, Ted Dunbar,
Jack Wilkins (guitar) Eddie Gomez, George Mraz (bass) Joe Chambers, Steve Gadd, Dannie
Richmond (drums) Sammy Figueroa, Ray Mantilla (percussion) Paul Jeffrey (conductor)
Charles Mingus (composer, arranger)
36249
Three Worlds Of Drums
Randy Brecker, Mike Davis (trumpet) Jack Walrath (trumpet, arranger) Jimmy Knepper,
Keith O'Quinn (trombone) Lee Konitz, Yoshiaki Malta, Akira Ohmori (alto sax) Ken
Hitchcock (alto, soprano sax) Daniel Block, Michael Brecker, Ricky Ford, John Tank (tenor
sax) Pepper Adams, Ronnie Cuber, Craig Purpura (baritone sax) Bob Neloms (piano) Larry
Coryell, Ted Dunbar, Jack Wilkins (guitar) Eddie Gomez (bass) Joe Chambers, Dannie
Richmond (drums) Charles Mingus (composer, arranger) Paul Jeffrey (arranger, conductor)
36250
Devil Woman
36251
36252
Carolyn "Keki" Mingus
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1945 (age 23)

Howard McGhee And His Orchestra 1945-1948 - McGhee Special (Jazz

Baron Mingus - West Coast 1945-49 (Uptown UPCD 27.48)

The Complete Illinois Jacquet Sessions 1945-50 (Mosaic MR6-165)

Ernie Andrews - Paradise Lost / I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance (Golden

I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance

Tenor Sax Of Lucky Thompson - The Beginning Years (IAJRC CD 1001)

Dinah Washington Sings The Blues (Grand Award GA 33-318)

Dinah Washington - Mellow Mama (Delmark DL-451)

Charles Mingus - The Young Rebel (Swingtime (E) ST 1010)

Various Artists - Modern Trumpet Leaders (IAJRC 25)

Baron Mingus - Ashby De La Zouch / Love On A Greyhound Bus (4 Star

Gene Morris - Riff G.M. / Is It A Sin (Clear Tone 501)

Lionel Hampton - Hamp's Golden Favorites (Decca DL 4296)

Lionel Hampton 5 - Swinging Sessions! 1945.1950 (MCA (F) 510.117)

Lionel Hampton 7 - Hamp's Small Combos 1947-1950 (MCA (F) 510.181)

Lionel Hampton In Concert (Cicala Jazz Live (It) BLJ 8015)

Los Angeles, CA, May 3, 1950

Red Norvo - Move! (Savoy MG 12088)

Red Norvo/George Shearing - Midnight On Cloud 69 (Savoy MG 12093)

Los Angeles, CA, April 13, 1951

Red Norvo Trio (Standard Q 261)

The Red Norvo Trio (Natural Organic 7001)

Red Norvo Trio (Rond-Lette A 28)

Red Norvo Trio (Standard Q 262)

Standard Transcriptions, Chicago, IL, probably late 1950-early 1951

Red Norvo Trio (Standard Q 266)

Miles Davis - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Art Blakey (Ozone 7)

Billy Taylor - Jazz At Storyville (Roost RLP 406)

Charles Mingus - Vital Savage Horizons (Alto AL 714)

Melvin Moore - While I'm Gone / I'll Be There (King 4519)

1952 (age 30)

Jazz Workshop - Autobiography In Jazz (Debut DEB 198)

The George Wallington Trios Featuring Charles Mingus, Oscar Pettiford,

Jazz Workshop - Autobiography In Jazz (Debut (J) DEB 198)

Charlie Parker - Ballads And Birdland (Klacto (E) MG 101)

Various Artists - Operation Jazz (Roost OJ 1)

From Barrelhouse To Bop: A History Of Jazz Piano - Narrated And Played

Bop: George Shearing / Debbie D

Charlie Parker - The Happy "Bird" (Charlie Parker PLP 404)

Bud Powell - Spring Broadcasts 1953 (ESP-Disk' ESP 3022)

Hooray For Bud Powell Trio (Session Disc 109)

Bud Powell - Inner Fires (Elektra Musician E1-60030)

Charles Mingus - The Complete Debut Recordings (Debut 12DCD-4402-2)

52nd Street Theme (undubbed version)

The Quintet - Jazz At Massey Hall, Vol. 1 (Debut DLP 2)

The Quintet - Jazz At Massey Hall (Debut DEB 124)

The Bud Powell Trio (Fantasy LP 6006)

Miles Davis - Blue Haze (Prestige PRLP 7054)

The Complete Charlie Parker On Verve - Bird (Verve (J) J00J-29001/10)

The Magnificent Charlie Parker (Clef MGC 646)

The Genius Of Charlie Parker #7 - Jazz Perennial (Verve MGV 8009)

Bud Powell - Summer Broadcasts 1953 (ESP-Disk' ESP 3023)

Charlie Parker - The Bird You Never Heard (Stash ST-CD-10)

Charlie Parker - Dance Of The Infidels (S.C.A.M. JPG 1)

Jazz Workshop - Trombone Rapport / Trombone Workshop (Debut (D) DEB

Four Trombones (Debut DEB 126)

Charles Mingus Octet (Debut DEP 450)

Introducing Paul Bley (Original Jazz Classics OJC-201)

Introducing Paul Bley (Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-201-2)

NYC, November 30, 1953

Teo Macero - Explorations (Debut DLP 6)