Mingus Dynasty

For the band, see Mingus Dynasty (band).

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Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 for Columbia Records. It is the companion album to his other 1959 record, Mingus Ah Um, and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The title alludes to Mingus's ancestry which was partially Chinese.

Tracks 1, 3, 4 and 5 were released in their unedited form in 1979 on vinyl and in 1999 on CD. The cuts amount to about 8 minutes.

Track listing

All compositions by Charles Mingus except where noted.

1. "Slop" - 6:16
2. "Diane" - 7:32
3. "Song With Orange" - 6:50
4. "Gunslinging Bird" (Originally titled "If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats") - 5:14
5. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington) - 7:36
6. "Far Wells, Mill Valley" - 6:14
7. "New Now Know How" - 4:13
8. "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington) - 8:13
9. "Put Me in That Dungeon" - 2:53
10. "Strollin'" aka "Nostalgia in Times Square" (Mingus, George Gordon) Bonus track on CD - 4:33

Personnel

• John Handy - alto sax
• Booker Ervin – tenor sax
• Benny Golson - tenor sax (2, 3, 4, 6, 10)
• Jerome Richardson - baritone sax (2, 3, 4, 6, 10), flute (2)
• Richard Williams - trumpet (2, 3, 4, 6, 10)
• Don Ellis - trumpet (1, 5, 8, 9)
• Jimmy Knepper – trombone
• Roland Hanna - piano (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9)
• Nico Bunink - piano (7, 10)
• Charles Mingus - bass
• Dannie Richmond – drums
• Teddy Charles - vibes (2, 3, 4, 6)
• Maurice Brown - cello (2, 9)
• Seymour Barab - cello (2, 9)
• Honi Gordon - vocals (10)

50th Anniversary Legacy Edition

In 2009 Sony's Legacy Recordings released a special 2-disc 50th Anniversary Edition of Mingus's seminal 1959 album Mingus Ah Um that also includes Mingus Dynasty in its entirety on the second disc.