Charles Mingus – Passions Of A Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961 Label: Rhino Records

Charles Mingus – Passions Of A Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961

Label: Rhino Records (2) – 8122796523

Format:

6 x CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered

Box Set, Compilation

Country: Europe

Released: 1997

Genre: Jazz

Style: Bop, Post Bop

1-1 Pithecanthropus Erectus 10:33

1-2 A Foggy Day 7:47

1-3 Love Chant 14:56

1-4 Profile Of Jackie 3:07

1-5 Laura 4:52

1-6 When Your Lover Has Gone 2:27

1-7 Just One Of Those Things 6:06

1-8 Blue Greens 11:42

2-1 The Clown

Narrator – Jean Shepherd (2)

12:29

2-2 Passions Of A Woman Loved 9:43

2-3 Blue Cee 7:48

2-4 Tonight At Noon 5:58

2-5 Reincarnation Of A Lovebird 8:31

2-6 Haitian Fight Song 11:57

3-1 E's Flat Ah's Flat Too 6:37

3-2 My Jelly Roll Soul 6:47

3-3 Tensions 6:27

3-4 Moanin' 7:57

3-5 Cryin' Blues 4:58

3-6 Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting 5:42

3-7 E's Flat Ah's Flat Too (Alternate Take) 7:16

3-8 My Jelly Roll Soul (Alternate Take) 11:51

3-9 Tensions (Alternate Take) 5:30

3-10 Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting (Alternate Take) 6:56

4-1 Prayer For Passive Resistance 8:06

4-2 Better Git Hit In Your Soul 11:36

4-3 Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting 11:54

4-4 Folk Forms I 11:08

4-5 What Love? 13:34

4-6 I'll Remember April 13:39

5-1 Devil Woman 9:38

5-2 Ecclusiastics 6:55

5-3 "Old" Blues For Walt's Torin 8:59

5-4 Peggy's Blue Skylight 9:42

5-5 Hog Callin' Blues 7:26

5-6 Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me 5:38

5-7 Passions Of A Man 4:52

5-8 Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am 4:41

5-9 Invisible Lady 4:49

5-10 Eat That Chicken 4:36

6-1 Charles Mingus Interviewed By Nesuhi Ertegun 1:15:00

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Atlantic Recording Corporation

Copyright © – Atlantic Recording Corporation

Alto Saxophone – Eric Dolphy (tracks: 4-1 to 4-4, 4-6), Jackie McLean (tracks: 1-1 to 1-5, 3-1 to 3-10), John Handy (tracks: 3-1 to 3-10)

Baritone Saxophone – Pepper Adams (tracks: 3-1 to 3-10)

Bass – Charles Mingus (tracks: 1-1 to 4-6), Doug Watkins (tracks: 5-1 to 5-10)

Bass Clarinet – Eric Dolphy (tracks: 4-5)

Drums – Dannie Richmond (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6, 4-1 to 5-10), Ed Shaughnessy (tracks: 1-6 to 1-8), Willie Jones (tracks: 1-1 to 1-5)

Flute, Siren, Saxophone [Manzello, Strich] – Roland Kirk (tracks: 5-1 to 5-10)

Interviewee – Charles Mingus (tracks: 6-1)

Interviewer – Nesuhi Ertegun (tracks: 6-1)

Piano – Bud Powell (tracks: 4-6), Charles Mingus (tracks: 4-2 to 4-3, 5-1 to 5-10), Hall Overton (tracks: 1-6 to 1-8), Horace Parlan (tracks: 3-2 to 3-6, 3-8 to 3-10), Mal Waldron (tracks: 1-1 to 1-5, 3-1, 3-7), Wade Legge (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6)

Tenor Saxophone – Booker Ervin (tracks: 3-1 to 3-10, 4-1 to 4-5, 5-1 to 5-10), J.R. Monterose (tracks: 1-1 to 1-5), Roland Kirk (tracks: 5-1 to 5-10), Shafi Hadi (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6)

Trombone – Jimmy Knepper (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6, 3-1 to 3-10, 5-1 to 5-10), Willie Dennis (tracks: 3-1 to 3-10)

Trumpet – Ted Curson (tracks: 4-1 to 4-6)

Vibraphone – Teddy Charles (tracks: 1-6 to 1-8)

Voice – Charles Mingus (tracks: 5-1 to 5-10)

Date and location:

Disc 1, 1-5: January 30, 1956, Audio-Video Studios, New York City

Disc 1, 5-8: November 12, 1956, New York City

Disc 2, 1: February 13, 1957, Audio-Video Studios, New York City

Disc 2: 2-6: March 12, 1957, Atlantic Studios, New York City

Disc 3: February 4, 1959, Atlantic Studios, New York City

Disc 4: July 13, 1960, Antibes Jazz Festival, Juan-les-Pins, France

Disc 5: November 6, 1961, Atlantic Studios, New York City

Disc 6: late 1961/early 1962, Nesuhi Ertegun's office, Atlantic Records, New York City

 

Original issue (year):

Disc 1, 1-5: Atlantic 1237 as "Pithecanthropus Erectus" (July 1956)

Disc 1, 5-8: Atlantic 1274 as Teddy Charles' "Word From Bird" (June 1958)

Disc 2, 1,3,5,6: Atlantic 1260 as "The Clown" (August 1957)

Disc 2, 2,4; Disc 5, 3,4,9: Atlantic 1416 as "Tonight At Noon" (June 1964)

Disc 3, 1-6: Atlantic 1305 as "Blues & Roots" (March 1960)

Disc 3, 7-10: previously unissued

Disc 4: Atlantic 2-3001 as "Mingus At Antibes" (October 1976)

Disc 5, 1,2,5-8,10: Atlantic 1377 as "Oh Yeah" (April 1962)

Disc 6: previously unissued extended interview; edited version originally appeared on CD reissue of "Oh Yeah", Atlantic 90667-2 (1988)

 

8122796523

This compilation (p) & (c) 1997 Atlantic Recording Corporation

Made in the EU

Barcode: 0 81227 96523 5

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