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Tijuana Moods 
Studio album by Charles Mingus Released 1962 Recorded July 18 and August 6, 1957 Genre Jazz Length 35:15 Label RCA Producer Bob Rolontz Charles Mingus chronology Oh Yeah
(1961)Tijuana Moods
(1962)The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
(1963)Tijuana Moods is a 1962 album by Charles Mingus that was originally recorded in 1957. It was reissued in 1996 on CD as New Tijuana Moods with four alternate takes.
It is notable that the name "Charlie Mingus" is on the cover of the album. Mingus hated all nicknames derived from Charles ("Don't call me Charlie; that's not a man's name, that's a name for a horse"[1]). All songs were composed by Mingus except "Flamingo".
Contents
Reception
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
[2]- Down Beat (p. 80) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Tijuana Moods is] the 1957 masterpiece on which Mingus asserts full control over his longform chops."
- Down Beat (12/01, p. 90) - 4.5 stars out of 5 - "This collection allows us to observe Mingus in the midst of his truly creative process."
- Uncut(8/01, p. 96) - 5 stars out of 5 - "[A] mindblowing collection....Its breathtaking scope prefigures many innovations made under the rock rubric in the Sixties."
Track listing
All compositions by Charles Mingus except where noted.
- "Dizzy Moods"
- "Ysabel's Table Dance"
- "Tijuana Gift Shop"
- "Los Mariachis (The Street Musicians)"
- "Flamingo" (Ted Grouya)
Track listing of 2010 Expanded Edition
Released on Columbia/Legacy (catalog number 88697694392).
Disc 1
- "Dizzy Moods"
- "Ysabel's Table Dance"
- "Tijuana Gift Shop"
- "Los Mariachis"
- "Flamingo"
- "Dizzy Moods (Alternate Take)"
- "Ysabel's Table Dance (Alternate Take)"
- "Los Mariachis (Alternate Take)"
- "Flamingo (Alternate Take)"
Disc 2
- "Tijuana Gift Shop (Alternate Take)"
- "A Colloquial Dream"
- "Flamingo (Alternate Take)"
- "Ysabel's Table Dance (Composite Incomplete Take)"
- "Dizzy Moods (Junkyard Take 8)"
- "Dizzy Moods (Bass Solos Take 14)"
- "Tijuana Gift Shop (Alternate Takes 1-4)"
- "Tijuana Gift Shop (Alternate Take 6)"
- "Los Mariachis (Take 1-3)"
- "Los Mariachis (Take 5-10)"
- "Los Mariachis (Take 15-23)"
- "A Colloquial Dream (Take 6)"
- "A Colloquial Dream (Take 8)"
Personnel
- Charles Mingus, bass, vocals
- Clarence Shaw, trumpet
- Jimmy Knepper, trombone
- Shafi Hadi, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
- Bill Triglia, piano
- Dannie Richmond, drums
- Ysabel Morel, castanets, vocals
- Frankie Dunlop, percussion
- Lonnie Elder [sic], voices
References
- ^ Priestley, Brian: Mingus: A Critical Biography. New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 1983, p.58.
- ^ Allmusic review
Charles Mingus Studio albums Jazz Composers Workshop (1954-55) · The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus (1955) · Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) · The Clown (1957) · East Coasting (1957) · A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry (1957) · Mingus Ah Um (1959) · Mingus Dynasty (1959) · Blues & Roots (1960) · Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (1960) · Reincarnation of a Lovebird (1960) · Oh Yeah (1961) · Tonight at Noon (1957-61) · Tijuana Moods (1962) · The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963) · Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (1964) · Mingus Plays Piano (1964) · Let My Children Hear Music (1972) · Mingus Moves (1973) · Changes One (1974) · Changes Two (1975) · Three or Four Shades of Blues (1977) · Cumbia & Jazz Fusion (1978)Live albums Mingus at the Bohemia (1955) · The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1955) · Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959) · Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy Cornell 1964 (1964) · Town Hall Concert (1964) · The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (1964) · Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964) · Mingus at Monterey (1964) · Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972) · Mingus at Carnegie Hall (1974) · Mingus at Antibes (1976)Related Categories:- 1962 albums
- Charles Mingus albums
- RCA Records albums
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