Artist: 
Charles Mingus

Pre-Bird

LP [Acoustic Sounds]
€44,99

Release date: 29 September 2023

Article Number: 504439000

61 release, Mingus chose music composed before he heard the revolutionary playing of Charlie Parker. 
The album features large ensembles and includes two swing-era contrapuntal ‘mash-ups’, with one song playing out of the left channel and another from the right.

VERVE ACOUSTIC SOUNDS SERIES: mastered fully analogue from the original tapes by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound, QPR pressing (180 g), firm tip-on gatefold (Stoughton Printing), padded inner sleeve.

Tracklisting
Charles Mingus    - Pre-Bird (1960)

A1  Take The "A" Train 
A2 Prayer For Passive Resistance
A3 Eclipse 
A4 Mingus Fingus No. 2
A5 Weird Nightmare
B1 Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
B2 Bemoanable Lady
B3 Half-Mast Inhibition

Charles Mingus – bass / Max Roach - drums / Marcus Belgrave - trumpet / Ted Curson - trumpet
Clark Terry - trumpet / Hobart Dotson - trumpet / Richard Williams - trumpet / Robert Di Domenica - flute 
Harry Shulman - oboe / Eric Dolphy - alto saxophone, flute / Booker Ervin - saxophone / Yusuf Lateef - saxophone, flute 
John LaPorta - saxophone / Danny Bank - saxophone / Bill Barron - saxophone / Joe Farrell - saxophone / Eddie Bert - trombone 
Slide Hampton - trombone / Jimmy Knepper - trombone / Charles "Majeed" Greenlee - trombone / Paul Bley - piano / Roland Hanna - piano
George Scott - drums / Dannie Richmond - drums / Sticks Evans - drums / Lorraine Cusson - vocals
 

Format Album
Release Date 2023
Speed 33 RPM
Size 12"

Tracklist

  1. 1. Take The "A" Train
  2. 2. Prayer For Passive Resistance
  3. 3. Eclipse
  4. 4. Mingus Fingus No. 2
  5. 5. Weird Nightmare