MINGUS AH UM/Charles Mingus
Columbia CS 8171
Recorded May 5-12, 1959, Columbia 30th Studio, New York City
Released October 1959
My copy is a reissue by Classic Records in 1995 - 180 gm
Musicians:
Charles Mingus – bass, piano
Horace Parlan – piano
Dannie Richmond – drums
John Handy – alto saxophone
Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone
Shafi Hadi – tenor saxophone
Willie Dennis – trombone
Jimmy Knepper – trombone
Charles Mingus’s first recording for Columbia Records is, to my ears, one of the top 20 indispensable Jazz Music records. Let your ears be the judge. For me, all that’s missing are great Intore dancers from Rwanda, for some of the music here is straight from that beautiful land of a thousand hills.
Listen to Better Git It In Your Soul by Charles Mingus