Mingus Revisited

Mingus Revisited
Studio album by Charles Mingus
Released 1960 (Pre-Bird)
1964 (Mingus Revisited)
Recorded 1960
Genre Jazz
Length 35:20
Label Mercury
Limelight Records
Producer Leonard Feather
Charles Mingus chronology

Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland
(1959)		 Mingus Revisited
(1960)		 Mingus at Antibes
(1960)

Mingus Revisited (originally released as Pre-Bird in 1960) is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus consisting of music that was composed before Mingus first heard Charlie Parker, hence the Pre-Bird title. The music is scored for various sized large jazz ensembles and features many soloists prominent at the time of recording. The album includes two tracks which are contrapuntal arrangement of two Swing Era pieces, whereby "Take the "A" Train" (left channel) is paired with a simultaneous "Exactly Like You" (right channel), and likewise "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" with "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart".

Track listing

  1. "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) / "Exactly Like You" (Jimmy McHugh/Dorothy Fields) – 3:40
  2. "Prayer For Passive Resistance" – 3:57
  3. "Eclipse" – 4:01
  4. "Mingus Fingus No. 2" – 3:39
  5. "Weird Nightmare" - 3:42
  6. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" (Duke Ellington/Bob Russell) / "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" (Duke Ellington/Irving Mills/Henry Nemo/John Redmond) - 3:41
  7. "Bemoanable Lady" - 4:30
  8. "Half-Mast Inhibition" - 8:14
All compositions by Charles Mingus, except where indicated

Personnel