AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Analogue Productions - AIPJ 54 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue

Mastered By Kevin Gray at Acoustech - Impulse AS-54

Limited Edition - Pressed at QRP Quality Record Pressings 

Mingus is also all about the ensemble...this reissue has a life and immediacy I've not heard before with this title, whose stunning music overwhelms any flaws of the recording." - Wayne Garcia, The Absolute Sound

...Anyone with half an ear could immediately hear the outstanding improvements from the very first track." - John Henry, Audiophile Audition, 

Charles Mingus's second Impulse! album, released in 1963, was another large-ensemble masterpiece

This 1963 recording is a major showcase of the talented Charles Mingus as a bassist, pianist and writer. From the blues-painted bass moaning that opens "II BS," to the blazing fire of "Hora Decubitis," these tunes come furiously barreling out one after another.

Speed and density aside, however, there are also multicolor, lovely tunes like Ellington's "Mood Indigo" and Mingus's paean to Lester Young. More than anything, though, this is a major document thanks to the presence of the big ensemble, harmonized by the late Jaki Byard on piano and fronted by a herd of horn-players, Eric Dolphy and Booker Ervin chief among them.

Eddie Preston, Richard Williams, trumpets

Britt Woodman, trombone
Don Butterfield, tuba
Jerome Richardson, Soprano, baritone saxes, flute
Dick Hafer, tenor sax, clarinet, flute
Booker Ervin, tenor sax
Eric Dolphy, alto sax, flute
Jaki Byard, piano
Charlie Mingus, bass, piano
Walter Perkins, drums
Rolf Ericson, Richard Williams, trumpets
Quentin Jackson, trombone
Don Butterfield, tuba
Jerome Richardson, soprano, baritone saxes, flute
Dick Hafer, tenor sax, flute
Charles Mariano, alto sax
Jaki Byard, piano
Jay Berliner, guitar
Charlie Mingus, bass, piano
Dannie Richmond, drums

Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus :

1. II B.S.
2. I X Love
3. Celia
4. Mood Indigo
5. Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul
6. Theme for Lester Young
7. Hora Decubitus