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For the band, see Mingus Dynasty (band).
Mingus Dynasty 
Studio album by Charles Mingus Released 1959 Recorded November 1–13, 1959 Genre Jazz Length 59:15 Label Columbia Producer Teo Macero Charles Mingus chronology Mingus Ah Um 1959 Mingus Dynasty 1959 Pre Bird 1960
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[1]Mingus Dynasty is an album by Charles Mingus, recorded and released in 1959, and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
Track listing
All compositions by Charles Mingus except where noted.
- "Slop"
- "Diane"
- "Song With Orange"
- "Gunslinging Bird"
- Originally called "If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats"
- "Things Ain't What They Used To Be" (Mercer Ellington)
- "Far Wells, Mill Valley"
- "New Now Know How"
- "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington)
- "Put Me In That Dungeon"
- "Strollin' " (Nostalgia In Times Square) (Mingus, Nat Gordon)
- Bonus track
50th Anniversary Legacy Edition
In 2009 Sony's Legacy Recordings released a special 2-disc 50th Anniversary Edition of Mingus' seminal 1959 album Mingus Ah Um that also includes Mingus Dynasty in its entirety on the second disc.[2]
References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Album Review - Mingus Ah Um: Legacy Edition. Pitchfork.com. Accessed: January 11, 2009
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:- Charles Mingus albums
- 1959 albums
- Columbia Records albums
- Albums produced by Teo Macero
- Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients
- 1950s jazz album stubs
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