- jazz
- 46 min
- 9 tracks
- Columbia
Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on Columbia Records in 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, a pun on the Ming dynasty, alludes to Mingus's ancestry, which was partially Chinese.
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Spare, grave, character-led and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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Tracks
- A1Slop4:44
- A2Diane7:35
- A3Song With Orange4:19
- A4Gunslinging Bird4:02
- B1Things Ain’t What They Used to Be4:29
- B2Far Wells, Mill Valley6:18
- B3New Now Know How3:06
- B4Mood Indigo8:19
- B5Put Me in That Dungeon2:53
9 tracks, 46 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Charles Mingus, His Jazz Group
- Label
- Columbia
- Released
- 1960
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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