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{{Album reviews| rev2 = Down Beat(Original LP release)4|5}}Down Beat: September 15, 1960 Vol. 27, No. 19|rev1 = AllMusic4.5class=albumpure_url=yes}} Allmusic review] |rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings3AUTHORLINK1=RICHARD COOK (JOURNALIST) FIRST2=BRIAN TITLE=THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ >YEAR=2008 PUBLISHER=PENGUIN BOOKS >ISBN=978-0-141-03401-0, 1002, }}Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on Columbia Records in May 1960.NEWS, 19 Columbia Albums For May Release,americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/60s/1960/CB-1960-05-07-OCR-Page-0036.pdf, 14 August 2019, The Cash Box, The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY, 7 May 1960, NEWS, New and Outstanding LPs,books.google.com/books?id=sB8EAAAAMBAJ&dq=mingus+8236&pg=PA47, 14 August 2019, The Billboard, The Billboard Publishing Co., 30 May 1960, NEWS, Mingus Dynasty,americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/60s/1960/CB-1960-05-14-OCR-Page-0040.pdf, 14 August 2019, The Cash Box, The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY, 14 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.Mingus, Charles. Beneath the Underdog; His World as Composed by Mingus. New York: Knopf, 1971.Tracks one, three, four, and five were released in their unedited form in 1979 on vinyl and in 1999 on CD. The cuts amount to about eight minutes.2009 remastered CD liner notes

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” (Originally titled “If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats“) – 5:14
5. “Things Ain’t What They Used to Be” (Mercer Ellington) – 7:36
6. “Far Wells, Mill Valley” – 6:14
7. “New Now Know How” – 4:13
8. “Mood Indigo” (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington) – 8:13
9. “Put Me in That Dungeon” – 2:53
10. “Strollin{{’“}} (Originally titled “Nostalgia in Times Square“) (Mingus, George Gordon) – 4:33 [Bonus track on CD]

Personnel

• Charles Mingus – bass
• John Handy – alto sax
• Booker Ervin – tenor sax
• Benny Golson – tenor sax (2, 3, 4, 6, 10)
• Jerome Richardson – baritone sax (2, 3, 4, 6, 10), flute (2)
• Richard Williams – trumpet (2, 3, 4, 6, 10)
• Don Ellis – trumpet (1, 5, 8, 9)
• Jimmy Knepper – trombone
• Roland Hanna – piano (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9)
• Nico Bunink – piano (7, 10)
• Dannie Richmond – drums
• Teddy Charles – vibes (2, 3, 4, 6)
• Maurice Brown – cello (2, 9)
• Seymour Barab – cello (2, 9)
• Honi Gordon – vocals (10)WEB,www.jazzloft.com/p-48467-mingus-dynasty-180g-lp.aspx, Charles Mingus – Mingus Dynasty, jazzloft.com, 2012-02-14, dead,www.jazzloft.com/p-48467-mingus-dynasty-180g-lp.aspx," title="web.archive.org/web/20130624082146www.jazzloft.com/p-48467-mingus-dynasty-180g-lp.aspx,">web.archive.org/web/20130624082146www.jazzloft.com/p-48467-mingus-dynasty-180g-lp.aspx, 2013-06-24, . Accessed February 14, 2012

50th Anniversary Legacy Edition

In 2009 Sony’s Legacy Recordings released a special, two-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.Album Review – Mingus Ah Um: Legacy Edition. Pitchfork.com. Accessed: January 11, 2009

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