1x 12" VinylStudio Album

Pre-Bird

Charlie Mingus

United States·Original Year: 1961

Release Date

Sep 1961

Catalog #

SR 60627

Tracks

Duration

34:12

Label

Mercury Records

SR 60627

Format

1x 12" Vinyl LP, Stereo

Sources:Discogs

#Jazz #Post Bop

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Notes

Recorded May 24, 1960 were tracks A4, B2 & B3. Recorded May 25 1960 were tracks A1, A2, A3, A5, & B1. "Take the "A" Train" interpolates "Exactly Like You" (Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields). "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" interpolates "I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart" (Duke Ellington-Henry Nemo-John Redmond). Both sessions were recorded in New York City on Ampex tape recorders at 15 inches per second. Front cover of sleeve is laminated.