8LP - Limited Edition Deluxe 180g Black Vinyl Boxed Set featuring the Jazz icon’s final seven studio albums and unreleased outtakes. There is also an extra set of takes of “Big Alice” and “The Call” on an Outtakes disc exclusive to the vinyl format.
2022 marked the 100th birthday of Charles Mingus, renowned American composer and bassist in the jazz genre. After his death in 1979, he was acknowledged as one of the most important jazz composers, alongside Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Mingus was innovative in his use of melody, rhythm, harmony, and form, and his compositions have become a core part of jazz repertoire.
This boxset includes his final studio recordings for Atlantic Records, spanning from the 1970s, featuring previously unreleased outtakes of “Big Alice”, “The Call” and “Music For Todo Modo”. Mingus had two periods of recording with Atlantic Records, the first being in the 1950s and 1960s, and the second in the 1970s, which marked his last phase of music.
Vinyl Track Listing:
LP 1: Mingus Moves (1973)
Side 1
1. “Canon”
2. “Opus 4”
3. “Moves”
4. “Wee”
Side 2
1. “Flowers For A Lady”
2. “Newcomer”
3. “Opus 3”
LP 2: Changes One (1974)
Side 1
1. “Remember Rockefeller At Attica”
2. “Sue’s Changes”
Side 2
1. “Devil Blues”
2. “Duke Ellington’s Sound Of Love”
LP 3: Changes Two (1974)
Side 1
1. “Free Cell Block F, ‘Tis Nazi U.S.A.”
2. “Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Silk Blue”
Side 2
1. “Black Bats And Poles”
2. “Duke Ellington’s Sound Of Love”
3. “For Harry Carney”
LP 4: Three Or Four Shades Of Blues (1977)
Side 1
1. “Better Git Hit In Your Soul”
2. “Goodbye, Porkpie Hat”
3. “Noddin Ya Head Blues”
Side 2
1. “Three Or Four Shades Of Blues”
2. “Nobody Knows (The Bradley I Know)”
LP 5: Cumbia & Jazz Fusion (1977)
Side 1
1. “Cumbia & Jazz Fusion”
Side 2
1. “Music for ‘Todo Modo’”
LP 6: Me, Myself An Eye (1979)
Side 1
1. “Three Worlds Of Drums”
Side 2
1. “Devil Woman”
2. “Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting”
3. “Carolyn ‘Keki’ Mingus”
LP 7: Something Like A Bird (1979)
Side 1
1. “Something Like A Bird Part 1”
Side 2
1. “Something Like A Bird Part 2”
2. “Farewell Farwell”
LP 8: Outtakes
Side 1
1. “Music For ‘Todo Modo’” (Take 1)*
2. “Big Alice” (Take 1) *
3. “Big Alice” (Take 2) *
Side 2
1. “Big Alice” (Take 3) *
2. “Big Alice” (Take 4)
3. “The Call” (Take 1) *
4. “The Call” (Take 2)
* Previously Unreleased