Tijuana Moods

1962 studio album by Charles Mingus

Tijuana Moods

Studio album by

Charles Mingus

Released| June 1962[1][2]
Recorded| July 18 & August 6, 1957
Genre|

* Jazz
* post-bebop
* flamenco jazz

Length| 35:15
Label| RCA
Producer| Bob Rolontz
Charles Mingus chronology
| Oh Yeah
(1962)  | Tijuana Moods
(1962)  | Money Jungle
(1963)

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Tijuana Moods is an album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1957 but not released until June 1962.[1][2][3] It was reissued in 1986 on CD as New Tijuana Moods with four additional alternate takes and as a double LP with five alternate takes. Two-CD expanded versions with further alternate takes were issued by RCA in 2000 and by Columbia in 2010.

In his notes to the 1986 reissue, Ed Michel said that "[h]ardly anything was recorded as a complete take" and so both the originally issued takes and the alternate versions had been assembled by editing additional sections into base takes.[4]

The name "Charlie Mingus" appears on the cover of the original 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"[5]).

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [6]
Tom Hull| A[8]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| 2000 expanded edition [9]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide| [7]

* DownBeat (p. 80) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Tijuana Moods is] the 1957 masterpiece on which Mingus asserts full control over his longform chops."
* DownBeat (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

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All compositions by Charles Mingus except where noted.

1. "Dizzy Moods"
2. "Ysabel's Table Dance"
3. "Tijuana Gift Shop"
4. "Los Mariachis (The Street Musicians)"
5. "Flamingo" (Ted Grouya)

### Track listing of New Tijuana Moods (1986)

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1. "Dizzy Moods"
2. "Ysabel's Table Dance"
3. "Tijuana Gift Shop"
4. "Los Mariachis"
5. "Flamingo"
6. "Dizzy Moods (Alternate Take)"
7. "Tijuana Gift Shop (Alternate Take)"
8. "Los Mariachis (Alternate Take)"
9. "Flamingo (Alternate Take)"

### Track listing of New Tijuana Moods (1986) 2-LP Version

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1. "Dizzy Moods" (5:47)
2. "Ysabel's Table Dance" (10:24)
3. "Tijuana Gift Shop" (3:44)
4. "Los Mariachis" (10:18)
5. "Flamingo" (5:31)
6. "Dizzy Moods (Alternate Take)" (8:17)
7. "Ysabel's Table Dance (Alternate Take)" (12:57)
8. "Tijuana Gift Shop (Alternate Take)" (4:39)
9. "Los Mariachis (Alternate Take)" (12:23)
10. "Flamingo (Alternate Take)" (6:37)

### Track listing of 2000 Expanded Edition

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Released on RCA Victor Gold Series (catalog number 74321749992)

Disc 1

1. "Dizzy Moods"
2. "Ysabel's Table Dance"
3. "Tijuana Gift Shop"
4. "Los Mariachis (The Street Musicians)"
5. "Flamingo"
6. "A Colloquial Dream (Scenes in the City)"

Disc 2

1. "Dizzy Moods (Alternate Take)"
2. "Ysabel's Table Dance (Alternate Take)"
3. "Tijuana Gift Shop (Alternate Take)"
4. "Los Mariachis (Alternate Take)"
5. "Flamingo (Alternate Take)"
6. "A Colloquial Dream (Alternate Take)"

### Track listing of 2001 Expanded Edition

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Released on Columbia/Legacy (catalog number 88697694392). Same track listing on 2001 Blue Bird First Editions (09026638402).

Disc 1

1. "Dizzy Moods"
2. "Ysabel's Table Dance"
3. "Tijuana Gift Shop"
4. "Los Mariachis"
5. "Flamingo"
6. "Dizzy Moods (Alternate Take)"
7. "Ysabel's Table Dance (Alternate Take)"
8. "Los Mariachis (Alternate Take)"
9. "Flamingo (Alternate Take)"

Disc 2

1. "Tijuana Gift Shop (Alternate Take)"
2. "A Colloquial Dream"
3. "Flamingo (Alternate Take)"
4. "Ysabel's Table Dance (Composite Incomplete Take)"
5. "Dizzy Moods (Junkyard Take 8)"
6. "Dizzy Moods (Bass Solos Take 14)"
7. "Tijuana Gift Shop (Alternate Takes 1-4)"
8. "Tijuana Gift Shop (Alternate Take 6)"
9. "Los Mariachis (Take 1-3)"
10. "Los Mariachis (Take 5-10)"
11. "Los Mariachis (Take 15-23)"
12. "A Colloquial Dream (Take 6)"
13. "A Colloquial Dream (Take 8)"

## Personnel

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* Charles Mingus, leader, bass
* 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
* Lonne Elder, vocals

## References

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1. ^ a b "June Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. June 16, 1962. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
2. ^ a b "Tijuana Moods". Billboard Music Week. The Billboard Publishing Co. June 9, 1962. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
3. ^ Tijuana Moods (Media notes). Charles Mingus. New York: RCA. 1997.`{{cite AV media notes}}`: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
4. ^ Michel, Ed (1986). New Tijuana Moods. RCA.
5. ^ Priestley, Brian: Mingus: A Critical Biography. New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 1983, p.58.
6. ^ AllMusic review
7. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 140\. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
8. ^ Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Essential Jazz Albums of the 1950s". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
9. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1001\. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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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)

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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