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Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um


1.Better Git It In Your Soul
2.Goodbye Pork-Pie Hat
3.Boogie Stop Shuffle
4.Self-Portrait In Three Colors
5.Open Letter To Duke
6.Bird Calls
7.Fables Of Faubus
8.Pussy Cat Dues
9.Jelly Roll
10.Pedal Point Blues - (bonus track)
11.GG Train - (bonus track)
12.Girl Of My Dreams - (bonus track)


Personnel: Charles Mingus (piano, bass); John Handy (alto & tenor saxophones, clarinet); Shafi Hadi (alto & tenor saxophones); Booker Ervin (tenor saxophone); Jimmy Knepper, Willie Dennis (trombone); Horace Parlan (piano); Dannie Richmond (drums).

Recorded at 30th Street Studio, New York, New York on May 5 & 12, 1959.