MINGUS DYNASTY CS 8236 COLUMBIA 6-EYE STEREO JAZZ LP 1D/1F MATRIXES BOOKER ERVIN

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Charles Mingus And His Jazz Groups ?– Mingus Dynasty
Columbia ?– CS 8236

ORIGINAL PRESSING FROM 1960 - 57 YEARS AGO!
VERY RARE "6-EYE"LABELS!
1D/1F MATRIXES!
COVER IS IN VG+ CONDITION WITH RINGWEAR, DAMAGE TO THE EDGES, AND A 2" SPLIT IN THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER.
VINYL IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH SOME LIGHT WEAR.
IT PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY WITH ONLY VERY LIGHT BACKGROUND NOISE.

Mingus Ah Um catapulted Charles Mingus from a much-discussed semi-underground figure to a near-universally accepted and acclaimed leader in modern jazz. Perhaps that's why his Columbia follow-up, Mingus Dynasty, is often overlooked in his canon -- it's lost in the shadow of its legendary predecessor, both because of that album's achievement and the fact that it's just a notch below the uppermost echelon of Mingus' work. Having said that, Mingus Dynasty is still an excellent album; in fact, it's a testament to just how high a level Mingus was working on that an album of this caliber could have gotten lost in the shuffle. There's a definite soundtrack quality to a great deal of the music here, and indeed the majority of Mingus' originals here were composed for film and television scores and an expanded, nine- to ten-piece group. On some pieces, Mingus refines and reworks territory he'd previously hit upon. "Slop," for example, is another gospel-inflected 6/8 stormer, composed for a TV production that requested a piece similar to "Better Get It in Your Soul." The ferocious "Gunslinging Bird" follows a similar pattern, and it's the same piece whose full title, "If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats," is given elsewhere. There are a couple of numbers from the Ellington songbook that both feature cellos -- "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" and a fantastic, eight-minute "Mood Indigo" -- and a couple of pieces that rely on the even more tightly orchestrated approach of Mingus' pre-Pithecanthropus Erectus days -- "Far Wells, Mill Valley" and the atonal but surprisingly tender and melodic "Diane."

Tracklist
A1     Slop     4:37
A2     Diane     7:30
A3     Song With Orange     4:12
A4     Gunslinging Bird     4:56
B1     Things Ain't What They Used To Be     4:23
B2     Far Wells, Mill Valley     6:10
B3     New Now, Know How     3:05
B4     Mood Indigo 8:15
B5     Put Me In That Dungeon     2:50


    Alto Saxophone – John Handy
    Bass, Liner Notes – Charles Mingus
    Cello – Maurice Brown (tracks: A1, B1, B4, B5), Seymour Barab (tracks: A1, B1, B4, B5)
    Drums – Dannie Richmond
    Flute, Baritone Saxophone – Jerome Richardson (tracks: A2 to A4, B2, B3)
    Piano – Roland Hanna
    Tenor Saxophone – Benny Golson (tracks: A2 to A4, B2, B3), Booker Ervin
    Trombone – James Knepper*
    Trumpet – Don Ellis (tracks: A1, B1, B4, B5), Dick Williams* (tracks: A2 to A4, B2, B3)
    Vibraphone [Vibes] – Theodore Cohen (tracks: A2 to A4, B2, B3)
    Written-By – C. Mingus* (tracks: A1 to B3, B5)

Notes by Charles Mingus as told Diane Dorr-Dorynek.

Recorded Nov.1 1959: Diane / Song with Orange / Gunslinging Bird / Far Wells, Mill Valley / New Now, Know How.

Recorded Nov. 13, 1959: Slop / Things Ain't What They Used To Be / Mood Indigo / Put Me In That Dungeon.