The original album ‘Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus’ takes up most of disc one. Much of disc two was originally released as the ‘Mingus’. Disc three consists of the ‘Newport Rebels’ album.
Eric Dolphy (alto sax, bass clarinet, flute), Jimmy Knepper, Britt Woodman (trombone), Booker Ervin (tenor sax),Charles McPherson (alto sax), Roy Eldridge, Ted Curson, Lonnie Hillyer (trumpet), Paul Bley, Tommy Flanagan, Nico Bunick (piano), Dannie Richmond, Jo Jones (drums).
New York, October-November 1960.
- 1 -
1. Folk Forms No.1
2. Original Faubus Fable
3. What Love
4. All the Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife W
5. Stormy Weather
6. Melody From the Drums
- 2 -
1. Reincarnation of a Lovebird No.1
2. Vasserlean
3. Mdm [Monk, Duke & Mingus]
4. Bugs
5. Reincarnation of a Lovebird No.2
6. Lock 'Em Up
7. Cliff Walk
8. T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
- 3 -
1. Mysterious Blues
2. Body and Soul
3. Body and Soul [Alternate Take]
4. R & R
5. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
6. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams [Alternate Take]
7. Me and You