Charles Mingus

The Quintet: Jazz At Massey Hall (Live) [1953] 1953 · 6 tracks · 46:41 runtime

1. 1Perdido (Live)7:43
2. 2Salt Peanuts (Live)7:40
3. 3All the Things You Are / 52nd Street Theme (Live)7:51
4. 4Wee (A.K.A. Allen's Alley) [Live]6:42
5. 5Hot House (Live)9:11
6. 6A Night In Tunisia (Live)7:34

The Jazz Experiments of Charles Mingus (Remastered 2013) 1954 · 6 tracks · 46:20 runtime

1. 1What Is This Thing Called Love (2013 - Remaster)8:13
2. 2Minor Intrusion (2013 - Remaster)10:20
3. 3Stormy Weather (2013 - Remaster)3:19
4. 4Four Hands (2013 - Remaster)8:58
5. 5Thrice Upon a Theme (2013 - Remaster)6:47
6. 6The Spur of the Moment (2013 - Remaster)8:44

Introducing Paul Bley (feat. Charles Mingus & Art Blakey) 1954 · 11 tracks · 40:16 runtime

1. 1Opus 1 (feat. Charles Mingus & Art Blakey)4:10
2. 2Opus 1 (feat. Charles Mingus & Art Blakey) [Alternate Take]3:25
3. 3(Teapot) Walkin' [feat. Charles Mingus & Art Blakey]4:30
4. 4Like Someone In Love (feat. Art Blakey & Charles Mingus)4:06
5. 5Spontaneous Combustion (feat. Charles Mingus & Art Blakey)4:18
6. 6Split Kick (feat. Charles Mingus & Art Blakey)3:06
7. 7I Can't Get Started (feat. Charles Mingus & Art Blakey)3:40
8. 8Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (feat. Charles Mingus & Art Blakey) [Paul Bley Trio Cover]3:35
9. 9The Theme (feat. Charles Mingus & Art Blakey)3:42
10. 10This Time The Dream's On Me (feat. Charles Mingus & Art Blakey)3:09
11. 11Zootcase (feat. Charles Mingus & Art Blakey)2:34

The Jazz Experiments of Charles Mingus (feat. John LaPorta, Teo Macero, Thad Jones, Jackson Wiley & Clem DeRosa) [Remastered 2013] 1955 · 6 tracks · 46:20 runtime

1. 1What Is This Thing Called Love?8:13
2. 2Minor Intrusion10:20
3. 3Stormy Weather3:19
4. 4Four Hands8:58
5. 5Thrice Upon a Theme6:47
6. 6The Spur of the Moment8:44

Mingus at The Bohemia (Live) 1956 · 8 tracks · 64:35 runtime

1. 1Jump Monk (Live)6:53
2. 2Serenade In Blue (Live)6:02
3. 3Percussion Discussion (Live)8:36
4. 4Work Song (Live)6:26
5. 5Septemberly (Live)7:04
6. 6All the Things You Can C# (Live)6:55
7. 7Jump Monk (Live) [Alternate Take]11:53
8. 8All the Things You Can C# (Live) [Alternate Take]10:44

Pithecanthropus Erectus 1956 · 4 tracks · 36:30 runtime

1. 1Pithecanthropus Erectus10:37
2. 2A Foggy Day7:50
3. 3Profile of Jackie3:08
4. 4Love Chant14:55

East Coasting (Remastered 2013) 1957 · 6 tracks · 39:02 runtime

1. 1Memories of You4:25
2. 2East Coasting5:10
3. 3West Coast Ghost10:25
4. 4Celia7:50
5. 5Conversation5:27
6. 6Fifty-First Street Blues5:45

A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry (Remastered 2013) 1957 · 5 tracks · 34:46 runtime

1. 1Scenes in the City11:20
2. 2Nouroog5:03
3. 3New York Sketchbook8:30
4. 4Duke's Choice6:25
5. 5Slippers3:28

The Clown 1957 · 6 tracks · 51:26 runtime

1. 1Haitian Fight Song12:02
2. 2Blue Cee7:52
3. 3Reincarnation of a Lovebird8:32
4. 4The Clown12:09
5. 5Passions of a Man4:52
6. 6Tonight At Noon6:00

Mingus Ah Um (Bonus Track Version) 1959 · 12 tracks · 72:32 runtime

1. 1Better Git It In Your Soul7:25
2. 2Goodbye Pork Pie Hat5:44
3. 3Boogie Stop Shuffle5:03
4. 4Self-Portrait In Three Colors3:10
5. 5Open Letter to Duke5:49
6. 6Bird Calls6:18
7. 7Fables of Faubus8:14
8. 8P***y Cat Dues9:15
9. 9Jelly Roll6:17
10. 10Pedal Point Blues6:31
11. 11GG Train4:40
12. 12Girl of My Dreams4:08

Mingus Ah Um (Legacy Edition) 1959 · 25 tracks · 151:45 runtime

1. 1Better Git It In Your Soul7:22
2. 2Better Git It In Your Soul8:30
3. 3Jelly Roll6:41
4. 4Goodbye Pork Pie Hat5:43
5. 5Slop6:15
6. 6Boogie Stop Shuffle5:00
7. 7Diane7:29
8. 8Self-Portrait In Three Colors3:09
9. 9Open Letter to Duke5:50
10. 10Song With Orange6:48
11. 11Bird Calls6:18
12. 12Gunslinging Bird5:12
13. 13Fables of Faubus8:13
14. 14Things Ain't What They Used to Be7:36
15. 15Pussy Cat Dues9:13
16. 16Far Wells, Mill Valley6:12
17. 17Jelly Roll6:16
18. 18New Now Know How4:12
19. 19Pedal Point Blues6:29
20. 20Mood Indigo8:13
21. 21GG Train4:38
22. 22Put Me In That Dungeon2:51
23. 23Girl of My Dreams4:08
24. 24Strollin'4:33
25. 25Bird Calls4:54

Mingus Ah Um 1959 · 9 tracks · 46:01 runtime

1. 1Better Get It In Your Soul7:23
2. 2Goodbye Pork Pie Hat4:48
3. 3Boogie Stop Shuffle3:43
4. 4Self-Portrait In Three Colours3:07
5. 5Open Letter To Duke4:57
6. 6Bird Calls3:14
7. 7Fables of Faubus8:16
8. 8P***y Cat Dues6:30
9. 9Jelly Roll4:03

Jazz Portraits: Mingus In Wonderland (Live) 1959 · 4 tracks · 44:13 runtime

1. 1Nostalgia In Times Square (Live)12:18
2. 2I Can't Get Started (Live)10:09
3. 3No Private Income Blues (Live)12:51
4. 4Alice's Wonderland (Live)8:55

Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Remastered) 1960 · 4 tracks · 46:01 runtime

1. 1Folk Forms, No. 1 (Remastered)12:58
2. 2Original Faubus Fables (Remastered)9:13
3. 3What Love (Remastered)15:18
4. 4All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother (Remastered)8:32

Mingus At Antibes (Live) 1960 · 6 tracks · 72:01 runtime

1. 1Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting (Live)12:06
2. 2Prayer for Passive Resistance (Live)8:24
3. 3What Love? (Live)14:05
4. 4I'll Remember April (Live)14:07
5. 5Folk Forms No. 1 (Live)11:42
6. 6Better Git Hit In Your Soul (Live)11:36

Blues & Roots (Bonus Track Version) 1960 · 10 tracks · 68:01 runtime

1. 1Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting5:42
2. 2Cryin' Blues5:01
3. 3Moanin'8:03
4. 4Tensions6:30
5. 5My Jelly Roll Soul6:48
6. 6E's Flat Ah's Flat Too6:47
7. 7Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting (Alternate Take) [Bonus Track]5:39
8. 8Tensions (Alternate Version) [Bonus Track]5:19
9. 9My Jelly Roll Soul (Alternate Version) [Bonus Track]11:25
10. 10E's Flat Ah's Flat Too (Alternate Take) [Bonus Track]6:47

Mingus Dynasty 1960 · 10 tracks · 59:15 runtime

1. 1Slop6:14
2. 2Diane7:28
3. 3Song With Orange6:47
4. 4Gunslinging Bird5:11
5. 5Things Ain't What They Used to Be7:35
6. 6Far Wells, Mill Valley6:11
7. 7New Now Know How4:12
8. 8Mood Indigo8:12
9. 9Put Me In That Dungeon2:51
10. 10Strollin'4:33

Blues & Roots (Mono) 1960 · 6 tracks · 38:54 runtime

1. 1Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting (Mono)5:45
2. 2Cryin' Blues (Mono)5:03
3. 3Moanin' (Mono)7:59
4. 4Tensions (Mono)6:31
5. 5My Jelly Roll Soul (Mono)6:51
6. 6E's Flat Ah's Flat Too (Mono)6:44

Pre-Bird 1960 · 8 tracks · 36:26 runtime

1. 1Take the "A" Train3:39
2. 2Prayer for Passive Resistance3:54
3. 3Eclipse4:00
4. 4Mingus Fingus No. 23:38
5. 5Weird Nightmare3:40
6. 6Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me3:40
7. 7Bemoanable Lady4:27
8. 8Half-Mast Inhibition9:28

Mingus (Remastered) 1961 · 3 tracks · 39:49 runtime

1. 1MDM (Remastered)19:48
2. 2Stormy Weather (Remastered)13:20
3. 3Lock 'Em Up (Remastered)6:41

The Complete Town Hall Concert (Live) 1962 · 12 tracks · 68:33 runtime

1. 1Freedom, Pt. 1 (Live)3:48
2. 2Freedom, Pt. 2 (Clark In the Dark) [Live]3:14
3. 3Osmotin' (Live)2:51
4. 4Epitaph, Pt. 1 (Live)7:03
5. 5Peggy's Blue Skylight (Live)5:21
6. 6Epitaph, Pt. 2 (Live)5:10
7. 7My Search (Live)8:10
8. 8Portrait (Live)4:34
9. 9Duke's Choice (AKA Don't Come Back) [Live]5:12
10. 10Please Don't Come Back from the Moon (Live)7:25
11. 11In a Mellow Tone (Finale) [Live]8:21
12. 12Epitaph, Pt. 1 (Alternate Take) [Live]7:23

Tijuana Moods 1962 · 6 tracks · 46:55 runtime

1. 1Dizzy Moods5:49
2. 2Ysabel's Table Dance10:26
3. 3Tijuana Gift Shop3:50
4. 4Los Maríachis10:20
5. 5Flamingo5:34
6. 6A Colloquial Dream (Bonus Track)10:57

Oh Yeah 1962 · 10 tracks · 66:40 runtime

1. 1Hog Calling Blues7:23
2. 2Devil Woman9:46
3. 3Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am4:42
4. 4Ecclusiastics6:59
5. 5Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me (Alternate Version)5:46
6. 6Eat That Chicken4:40
7. 7Passions of a Man4:52
8. 8Old Blues for Walt's Torin7:56
9. 9Peggy's Blue Skylight9:47
10. 10Invisible Lady4:50

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 1963 · 4 tracks · 39:18 runtime

1. 1Track A – Solo Dancer6:37
2. 2Track B – Duet Solo Dancers6:43
3. 3Track C – Group Dancers7:20
4. 4Mode D – Trio and Group Dancers / Mode E – Single Solos and Group Dance / Mode F – Group and Solo Dance18:37

Mingus Plays Piano 1963 · 11 tracks · 50:12 runtime

1. 1Myself When I Am Real7:36
2. 2I Can't Get Started3:41
3. 3Body and Soul4:32
4. 4Roland Kirk's Message2:41
5. 5Memories of You4:35
6. 6She's Just Miss Popular Hybrid3:08
7. 7Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Silk Blues4:14
8. 8Meditations for Moses3:39
9. 9Old Portrait3:45
10. 10I'm Getting Sentimental Over You3:44
11. 11Compositional Theme Story: Medleys, Anthems and Folklore8:36

Mingus In Europe 1964 · 5 tracks · 60:19 runtime

1. 1Orange Was the Colour of Her Dress Then Blue Silk17:01
2. 2Sophisticated Lady3:43
3. 3AT-FW-You5:04
4. 4Peggy's Blue Sky Light11:31
5. 5So Long Eric23:00

Town Hall Concert 1964 Vol. 1 (Live) 1964 · 2 tracks · 45:16 runtime

1. 1So Long Eric (Live)17:48
2. 2Praying With Eric (Live)27:28

Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus 1964 · 8 tracks · 45:46 runtime

1. 1II B.S.4:49
2. 2I X Love7:41
3. 3Celia6:15
4. 4Mood Indigo4:46
5. 5Better Git It In Your Soul6:31
6. 6Theme for Lester Young (Goodbye Pork Pie Hat)5:51
7. 7Hora Decubitus4:43
8. 8Freedom5:10

Right Now: Live At the Jazz Workshop 1964 · 2 tracks · 46:58 runtime

1. 1New Fables (Live)23:15
2. 2Meditation (For a Pair of Wire Cutters) [Live]23:43

The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (Live) 1964 · 8 tracks · 127:16 runtime

1. 1A.T.F.W. (Art Tatum Fats Waller) [Live]4:17
2. 2Sophisticated Lady (Live)7:55
3. 3Presentation of Musicians - Johnny Cole's Trumpet (Live)1:08
4. 4Parkeriana (Live)27:04
5. 5So Long Eric (Don't Stay Over There Too Long) [Live]21:47
6. 6Meditations On Integration (Or for a Pair of Wire-Cutters) [Live]22:47
7. 7Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk (Live)14:29
8. 8Fables of Faubus (Live)27:49

Tonight At Noon 1965 · 5 tracks · 38:24 runtime

1. 1Tonight At Noon6:00
2. 2Invisible Lady4:52
3. 3Old Blues for Walt's Torin7:57
4. 4Peggy's Blue Skylight9:47
5. 5Passions of a Woman Loved9:48

A Train (Live) 1968 · 1 tracks · 13:36 runtime

1. 1A Train (Live)13:36

Mingus At Carnegie Hall (Live) 1970 · 2 tracks · 46:37 runtime

1. 1C Jam Blues (Live)24:40
2. 2Perdido (Live)21:57

Charles Mingus and Friends In Concert (Live) 1972 · 17 tracks · 130:35 runtime

1. 1Introduction (Live)1:06
2. 2Introduction to "Strollin'" (Live)0:50
3. 3Jump Monk (Live)7:28
4. 4Strollin' (Live)10:14
5. 5E.S.P. (Live)9:25
6. 6The I of Hurricane Sue (Live)11:12
7. 7Ecclusiastics (Live)9:31
8. 8E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too (Live)17:08
9. 9Eclipse (Live)4:03

Let My Children Hear Music 1972 · 7 tracks · 59:35 runtime

Mingus Moves (Bonus Track Version) 1973 · 9 tracks · 62:32 runtime

Changes One 1975 · 4 tracks · 44:36 runtime

Changes Two 1975 · 5 tracks · 42:58 runtime

Lionel Hampton Presents the Music of Charles Mingus 1977 · 10 tracks · 51:52 runtime

Three or Four Shades of Blue 1977 · 5 tracks · 44:50 runtime

Cumbia & Jazz Fusion 1978 · 4 tracks · 54:54 runtime

Me, Myself an Eye 1979 · 4 tracks · 57:13 runtime

Mingus In Europe, Vol. 1 (Live) 1980 · 3 tracks · 58:36 runtime

Something Like a Bird 1981 · 2 tracks · 38:08 runtime

Live at The Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris - Vol.1 1989 · 5 tracks · 60:22 runtime

Mysterious Blues 1989 · 7 tracks · 58:39 runtime

Reincarnation Of A Love Bird 1989 · 5 tracks · 45:20 runtime

The Complete Debut Recordings 1990 · 169 tracks · 843:44 runtime

Epitaph 1990 · 19 tracks · 127:17 runtime

Paris 1964, Vol. 2 (Live) 1993 · 2 tracks · 53:03 runtime

Paris 1964, Vol. 1 (Live) 1993 · 4 tracks · 71:53 runtime

This Is Jazz 1996 · 10 tracks · 58:26 runtime

This Is Jazz, Vol. 6: Charles Mingus 1996 · 10 tracks · 58:26 runtime

Passions of a Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961 1997 · 41 tracks · 401:12 runtime

The Complete 1959 Columbia Recordings 1998 · 28 tracks · 169:58 runtime

Alternate Takes 1999 · 6 tracks · 38:33 runtime

Ken Burns Jazz: Charles Mingus 2000 · 9 tracks · 69:17 runtime

The Very Best of Charles Mingus 2001 · 11 tracks · 75:38 runtime

West Coast 1945-49 2001 · 24 tracks · 78:11 runtime

Charles Mingus's Finest Hour 2002 · 14 tracks · 59:20 runtime

Music Written for Monterey 1965 Not Heard… Played In Its Entirety At UCLA (Live) 2006 · 19 tracks · 87:32 runtime

The Impulse Story: Charles Mingus 2006 · 11 tracks · 60:03 runtime

Charles Mingus In Paris: The Complete America Session (Crystal Version) 2006 · 24 tracks · 119:05 runtime

Charles Mingus In Paris: The Complete America Session 2007 · 24 tracks · 119:17 runtime

20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Charles Mingus 2007 · 7 tracks · 61:51 runtime

Charles Mingus and the Newport Rebels (feat. Eric Dolphy & Roy Eldridge) 2010 · 6 tracks · 53:38 runtime

The Essential Charles Mingus: The Columbia Years 2013 · 20 tracks · 154:58 runtime

Live At Montreux 1975 2018 · 5 tracks · 83:54 runtime

Jazz in Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden - Edits - Single 2019 · 2 tracks · 10:34 runtime

Jazz in Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden 2019 · 12 tracks · 250:04 runtime

At Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Live at Bremen, Germany, April 16, 1964 and July 9, 1975) [Live] 2020 · 15 tracks · 234:11 runtime

Mingus At Carnegie Hall (Deluxe Edition) [2021 Remaster] [Live] 2021 · 7 tracks · 124:46 runtime

The Lost Album From Ronnie Scott's (Live) 2022 · 9 tracks · 145:32 runtime

Mingus Three (feat. Hampton Hawes & Danny Richmond) [2022 Remaster] 2022 · 15 tracks · 75:48 runtime

The Man Who Never Sleeps (Live) - EP 2022 · 1 tracks · 18:34 runtime

Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings 2023 · 33 tracks · 349:47 runtime

Reincarnations 2024 · 5 tracks · 42:55 runtime

Incarnations 2024 · 5 tracks · 42:49 runtime

By Popular Demand 2024 · 40 tracks · 268:07 runtime

Mingus At Monterey (Live) 2025 · 11 tracks · 65:24 runtime