Pre-Bird

Pre-Bird
Pre-Bird
Studio album by Charles Mingus
Released	September 1961
Recorded	May 24-25, 1960
Genre	Jazz
Length	35:20
Label	Mercury (1961); Limelight (1965, as Mingus Revisited)
Producer	Leonard Feather
Charles Mingus chronology

Professional ratings
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[4]

Pre-Bird (later re-released as Mingus Revisited) is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus consisting of music that was composed before Mingus first heard Charlie Parker, hence the title Pre-Bird. It was released on Mercury Records in September 1961.^[1]^[2]

The music is scored for various sized large jazz ensembles and features many soloists prominent at the time of recording. The album includes two tracks which are contrapuntal arrangements of two swing era pieces, whereby "Take the "A" Train" (left channel) is paired with a simultaneous "Exactly Like You" (right channel), and likewise "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" with "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart". Tracks 1 to 3, 5 and 6 recorded May 25, 1960 probably at Plaza Sound, New York City; tracks 4, 7 and 8 recorded May 24, 1960 at Plaza Sound, New York City.^[5]

Track listing[]

"Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) / "Exactly Like You" (Jimmy McHugh/Dorothy Fields) – 3:40
"Prayer For Passive Resistance" – 3:57
"Eclipse" – 4:01
"Mingus Fingus No. 2" – 3:39
"Weird Nightmare" - 3:42
"Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" (Duke Ellington/Bob Russell) / "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" (Duke Ellington/Irving Mills/Henry Nemo/John Redmond) - 3:41
"Bemoanable Lady" - 4:30
"Half-Mast Inhibition" - 8:14

All compositions by Charles Mingus, except where indicated

Personnel[]

Max Roach - drums
Gunther Schuller - conductor
Marcus Belgrave - trumpet
Ted Curson - trumpet
Clark Terry - trumpet
- trumpet
Richard Williams - trumpet
- flute
Eric Dolphy - alto saxophone, flute
Booker Ervin - saxophone
Yusuf Lateef - saxophone, flute
John LaPorta - saxophone
Danny Bank - saxophone
Bill Barron - saxophone
Joe Farrell - saxophone
Eddie Bert - trombone
Slide Hampton - trombone
Jimmy Knepper - trombone
Charles "Majeed" Greenlee - trombone
Paul Bley - piano
Roland Hanna - piano
Charles Mingus – bass
- drums
Dannie Richmond - drums
Sticks Evans - drums
- vocals

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "New LP Releases". Billboard Music Week. The Billboard Publishing Co. 11 Sep 1961. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "September Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. 16 Sep 1961. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1002. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 140. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ http://www.discogs.com/Charles-Mingus-Mingus-Revisited/release/5441550

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[BillboardNewLP-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "New LP Releases". Billboard Music Week. The Billboard Publishing Co. 11 Sep 1961. Retrieved 15 August 2019.

[CashBox-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "September Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. 16 Sep 1961. Retrieved 15 August 2019.

[Penguin-3] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1002. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[RSJRG-4] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 140. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

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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)
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