Mingus Dynasty


Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on Columbia Records in May 1960. 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.
Tracks 1, 3, 4 and 5 were released in their unedited form in 1979 on vinyl and in 1999 on CD. The cuts amount to about 8 minutes.

Track listing

All compositions by Charles Mingus except where noted.
  1. "Slop" – 6:16
  2. "Diane" – 7:32
  3. "Song With Orange" – 6:50
  4. "Gunslinging Bird" – 5:14
  5. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" – 7:36
  6. "Far Wells, Mill Valley" – 6:14
  7. "New Now Know How" – 4:13
  8. "Mood Indigo" – 8:13
  9. "Put Me in That Dungeon" – 2:53
  10. "Strollin'" aka "Nostalgia in Times Square" Bonus track on CD – 4:33

    Personnel

In 2009 Sony's released a special 2-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.