Mingus (Charles Mingus album)

Mingus
Mingus
Studio album by Charles Mingus
Released	October or November 1961
Recorded	20 October and 11 November 1960 at Nola Penthouse Sound Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	39:52
Label	Candid CJM-8021/CJS-9021
Charles Mingus chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[4]
DownBeat	^[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[7]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[6]

Mingus is an album by the jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus. The album was recorded in October and November 1960 in New York and released in late 1961 on Nat Hentoff's Candid label.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Background[]

At this time Mingus was working regularly with a piano-less quartet featuring Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson and Dannie Richmond, as heard on the Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus album also recorded in October 1960. The Mingus album features one track, "Stormy Weather", recorded by the same quartet, plus two tracks recorded by a larger group featuring piano and additional horns.

The track "M.D.M." weaves together the themes from three compositions: Duke Ellington's "Main Stem", Thelonious Monk's "Straight, No Chaser" and Mingus's own "Fifty-First Street Blues". The track "Lock 'Em Up" was inspired by a period of treatment that Mingus describes undergoing in his autobiography Beneath the Underdog, at New York's Bellevue psychiatric facility.

Track listings[]

Candid release[]

"M.D.M. (Monk, Duke and Me)" – 19:49
"Stormy Weather"* – 13:23
"Lock 'Em Up (Hellview of Bellevue)" – 6:40

All compositions by Charles Mingus except * by Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler

Barnaby reissue[]

In April, 1974, Barnaby Records reissued this album as Mingus: The Candid Recordings (KZ-31034), adding the track "Vasserlean", which had appeared only on a 1961 Candid Records various-artists collection called Jazz Life (CJM-8019/CJS-9019). The new track listing was:

"M.D.M. (Monk, Duke and Me)" – 19:49
"Vasserlean" – 6:35
"Stormy Weather" – 13:23
"Lock 'Em Up (Hellview of Bellevue)" – 6:40

Jazz Man reissue[]

In 1980, Jazz Man Records reissued this album under its original Candid title, Mingus (JAZ-5002), also including the track "Vasserlean." The track listing was:

"Stormy Weather" – 13:23
"Lock 'Em Up (Hellview of Bellevue)" – 6:40
"M.D.M. (Monk, Duke and Me)" – 19:49
"Vasserlean" – 6:35

Personnel[]

Charles Mingus – bass
Ted Curson, Lonnie Hillyer – trumpet
Jimmy Knepper, Britt Woodman – trombone
Charles McPherson – alto saxophone
Eric Dolphy – alto saxophone, flute and bass clarinet
Booker Ervin – tenor saxophone
Nico Bunink, Paul Bley – piano
Dannie Richmond – drums

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "New LP Releases". Billboard Music Week. The Billboard Publishing Co. 23 October 1961. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Reviews of New Albums". Billboard Music Week. The Billboard Publishing Co. 6 November 1961. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Mingus" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. 25 Nov 1961. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
^ Proefrock., Stacia (2011). "Mingus - Charles Mingus | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
^ Down Beat: February 1, 1962 vol. 29, no. 3
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 142. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1003. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[BillboardNewLPs-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "New LP Releases". Billboard Music Week. The Billboard Publishing Co. 23 October 1961. Retrieved 18 June 2019.

[BillboardMingus-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Reviews of New Albums". Billboard Music Week. The Billboard Publishing Co. 6 November 1961. Retrieved 18 June 2019.

[CashBox-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Mingus" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. 25 Nov 1961. Retrieved 14 August 2019.

[4] Proefrock., Stacia (2011). "Mingus - Charles Mingus | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 29 September 2012.

[5] Down Beat: February 1, 1962 vol. 29, no. 3

[RSJRG-6] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 142. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[Penguin-7] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1003. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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show v t Charles Mingus
Studio albums	The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus Jazz Composers Workshop Pithecanthropus Erectus The Clown East Coasting Mingus Three Weary Blues A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry Mingus Ah Um Blues & Roots Mingus Dynasty Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus Pre-Bird Mingus Oh Yeah Tijuana Moods Money Jungle The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Tonight at Noon Mingus Plays Piano Blue Bird Pithycanthropus Erectus Let My Children Hear Music Mingus Moves Changes One Changes Two Three or Four Shades of Blues His Final Work Cumbia & Jazz Fusion Something Like a Bird Charles Mingus with Orchestra Reincarnation of a Lovebird
Live albums	Mingus at the Bohemia (1956) Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959) The Complete Town Hall Concert (1962) The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1964) Astral Weeks (1964) Town Hall Concert (1964) Revenge! (1964) The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (1964) Mingus in Europe Volume I (1964) Mingus in Europe Volume II (1964) Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964) Mingus at Monterey (1964) My Favorite Quintet (1965) Music Written for Monterey 1965 (1965) Charles Mingus Sextet In Berlin (1970) Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972) Mingus at Antibes (1974) Mingus at Carnegie Hall (1974) Cornell 1964 (2007)
Books	Beneath the Underdog (1971 autobiography)
Related	Discography Mingus Big Band Mingus Dynasty Sue Mingus Jazz at Massey Hall (1953) Weary Blues (1958) Newport Rebels (1960) Money Jungle (1962) Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1964) Mingus (1979) Epitaph (1990) Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968 Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (1998 documentary) Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Plenty of Horn (1961) Ted Curson Plays Fire Down Below (1962) Flip Top (1964–66) Tears for Dolphy (1964) The New Thing & the Blue Thing (1965) Urge (1966) Ode to Booker Ervin (1970) Pop Wine (1971) Cattin' Curson (1973) Quicksand (1974) Blue Piccolo (1976) Jubilant Power (1976) Blowin' Away (and Dizzy Reece, 1978) The Trio (1979) I Heard Mingus (1980) Snake Johnson (1981)
With Charles Mingus	Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (1960) Mingus (with Charles Mingus, 1960) Mingus at Antibes (with Charles Mingus, 1960) Mingus Revisited/Pre-Bird (with Charles Mingus, 1960)
With others	California Cookin' (Pepper Adams, 1983) The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron (1961) Modern Windows (Bill Barron, 1961) Baritone Madness (Nick Brignola and Pepper Adams, 1977) Hoarded Dreams (Graham Collier, 1983) Spiral (Andrew Hill, 1974–75) Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (New York Contemporary Five, split album, 1964) Fire Music (Archie Shepp, 1965) Love for Sale (Cecil Taylor, 1959) Seant (Andrzej Trzaskowski, 1965–66)