Description
Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um
A1 Better Git It In Your Soul
A2 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
A3 Boogie Stop Shuffle
A4 Self-Portrait In Three Colors
A5 Open Letter To Duke
B1 Bird Calls
B2 Fables Of Faubus
B3 Pussy Cat Dues
B4 Jelly Roll
Recorded At – Columbia 30th Street Studio
Mastered At – Columbia Mastering
Mastered At – Customatrix
Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute
Alto Saxophone, Clarinet – John Handy
Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Shafi Hadi
Artwork – S. Neil Fujita
Bass, Composed By – Charles Mingus
Drums – Dannie Richmond
Liner Notes – Diane Dorr-Dorynek
Photography By – Herb Snitzer
Piano – Horace Parlan
Producer – Teo Macero
Tenor Saxophone – Booker Ervin
Trombone – Jimmy Knepper (tracks: A1, B1 to B4), Willie Dennis (tracks: A2 to A5)
Recorded at 30th Street Studio, NYC.
May 5, 1959 (A1, B1-B4) / May 12, 1959 (A2-A5).
Budget-line reissue with new prefix, ca. early 1980s.
Columbia, Terre Haute pressing as indicated by ‘T’ in runout area.
Matrix / Runout (Side 1 (label)): XSM 47458
Matrix / Runout (Side 2 (label)): XSM 47459
Matrix / Runout (Side 1 (runout) (Variant 1)): T 1 XSM 47458-1BC
Matrix / Runout (Side 2 (runout) (Variant 1)): XSM 47459 1AF T 1 COLUMBIA NY
Matrix / Runout (A-Side Runout Etching (Variant 2)): <J-AD> XSM 47458 G2B D G1 B5
Matrix / Runout (B-Side Runout Etching (Variant 2)): XSM 47458-1AF TI o COLUMBIA NY A 14
