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    Artist: 
    Charles Mingus

    Pre-Bird

    LP [Acoustic Sounds]
    €39,99

    Release date: September 29, 2023

    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
     

    Get into the details

    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