| Mingus | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | October or November 1961[1][2][3] | |||
| Recorded | 20 October and 11 November 1960 | |||
| Studio | Nola Penthouse Sound Studios, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 39:52 | |||
| Label | Candid CJM-8021/CJS-9021 | |||
| Charles Mingus chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| DownBeat | [5] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |  [7] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [6] |
Mingus is an album by the jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus. The album was recorded in October and November 1960 in New York and released in late 1961 on Nat Hentoff's Candid label.[1][2][3]
At this time Mingus was working regularly with a piano-less quartet featuring Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson and Dannie Richmond, as heard on the Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus album also recorded in October 1960. The Mingus album features one track, "Stormy Weather", recorded by the same quartet, plus two tracks recorded by a larger group featuring piano and additional horns.
The track "M.D.M." weaves together the themes from three compositions: Duke Ellington's "Main Stem", Thelonious Monk's "Straight, No Chaser" and Mingus's own "Fifty-First Street Blues". The track "Lock 'Em Up" was inspired by a period of treatment that Mingus describes undergoing in his autobiography Beneath the Underdog, at New York's Bellevue psychiatric facility.
In April, 1974, Barnaby Records reissued this album as Mingus: The Candid Recordings (KZ-31034), adding the track "Vasserlean", which had appeared only on a 1961 Candid Records various-artists collection called Jazz Life (CJM-8019/CJS-9019). The new track listing was:
In 1980, Jazz Man Records reissued this album under its original Candid title, Mingus (JAZ-5002), also including the track "Vasserlean." The track listing was:
