Mingus Dynasty

Mingus Dynasty
Mingus Dynasty
Studio album by Charles Mingus
Released	May 1960
Recorded	November 1 and 13, 1959
Studio	CBS 30th Street Studio, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	59:34
Label	Columbia
Producer	Teo Macero
Charles Mingus chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[5]
Down Beat (Original LP release)	^[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[6]

Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on Columbia Records in May 1960.^[1]^[2]^[3] It is a companion album to his 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.^[7]

Tracks one, three, four, and five were released in their unedited form in 1979 on vinyl and in 1999 on CD. The cuts amount to about eight minutes.^[8]

Track listing

All compositions by Charles Mingus except where noted.

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

Personnel

Charles Mingus – bass
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)
Dannie Richmond – drums
Teddy Charles – vibes (2, 3, 4, 6)
Maurice Brown – cello (2, 9)
Seymour Barab – cello (2, 9)
Honi Gordon – vocals (10)^[9]

50th Anniversary Legacy Edition

In 2009 Sony's Legacy Recordings released a special, two-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.^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b "19 Columbia Albums For May Release" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. 7 May 1960. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
^ ^a ^b "New and Outstanding LPs". The Billboard. The Billboard Publishing Co. 30 May 1960. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Mingus Dynasty" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. 14 May 1960. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
^ Down Beat: September 15, 1960 Vol. 27, No. 19
^ Allmusic review
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1002. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Mingus, Charles. Beneath the Underdog; His World as Composed by Mingus. New York: Knopf, 1971.
^ 2009 remastered CD liner notes
^ "Charles Mingus – Mingus Dynasty". jazzloft.com. Archived from the original on 2013-06-24. Retrieved 2012-02-14.. Accessed February 14, 2012
^ Album Review – Mingus Ah Um: Legacy Edition. Pitchfork.com. Accessed: January 11, 2009

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[CashBox_Columbia-1] "19 Columbia Albums For May Release" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. 7 May 1960. Retrieved 14 August 2019.

[Billboard-2] "New and Outstanding LPs". The Billboard. The Billboard Publishing Co. 30 May 1960. Retrieved 14 August 2019.

[CashBox_Dynasty-3] "Mingus Dynasty" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. 14 May 1960. Retrieved 14 August 2019.

[4] Down Beat: September 15, 1960 Vol. 27, No. 19

[5] Allmusic review

[Penguin-6] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1002. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[7] Mingus, Charles. Beneath the Underdog; His World as Composed by Mingus. New York: Knopf, 1971.

[8] 2009 remastered CD liner notes

[9] "Charles Mingus – Mingus Dynasty". jazzloft.com. Archived from the original on 2013-06-24. Retrieved 2012-02-14.. Accessed February 14, 2012

[10] Album Review – Mingus Ah Um: Legacy Edition. Pitchfork.com. Accessed: January 11, 2009

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v t e Charles Mingus
Discography
Studio albums	The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus Jazz Composers Workshop Pithecanthropus Erectus The Clown East Coasting Mingus Three 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 (1963) 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	Mingus Big Band Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard Mingus Dynasty Sue Mingus Jazz at Massey Hall (1953) Weary Blues (1958) Newport Rebels (1960) 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)

v t e Booker Ervin
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except when this was delayed
As leader	The Book Cooks (1960) Cookin' (1960) That's It! (1961) Exultation! (1963) Gumbo! (with Pony Poindexter, 1963) The Freedom Book (1963) The Song Book (1964) The Blues Book (1964) The Space Book (1964) Groovin' High (1963–64) The Trance (1965) Setting the Pace (with Dexter Gordon, 1965) Heavy!!! (1966) Structurally Sound (1966) Booker 'n' Brass (1967) The In Between (1968) Tex Book Tenor (1968) Back from the Gig (with Horace Parlan, 2LP, 1963/68)
With Charles Mingus	Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959) Mingus Ah Um (1959) Mingus Dynasty (1959) Blues & Roots (1959) Mingus (1960) Mingus at Antibes (1960 [1976]) Reincarnation of a Lovebird (1960) Oh Yeah (1961) Tonight at Noon (1961 [1964]) Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (1963)
With others	Hot Line (Bill Barron, 1962) Out Front! (Jaki Byard, 1964) Urge (Ted Curson, 1965) Cracklin' (Roy Haynes, 1963) In the Land of the Giants (Eric Kloss, 1969) Havin' a Ball at the Village Gate (Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan, 1963) Up & Down (Horace Parlan, 1961) Happy Frame of Mind (Horace Parlan, 1963) The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson (Don Patterson) Hip Cake Walk (Don Patterson, 1964) Patterson's People (Don Patterson, 1964) Tune Up! (Don Patterson, 1964 [1971]) Soul People (Sonny Stitt, 1964) The Quest (Mal Waldron, 1961) Highlife (Randy Weston, 1963) Randy/African Cookbook (Randy Weston, 1964) Monterey '66 (Randy Weston, 1966 [1994])