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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