Alternate Takes

by Charles Mingus

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  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: February 1999
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 38:34
  • Community rating: 3.77/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Alternate takes from Mingus's Atlantic sessions of the late 1950s, the period of 'Pithecanthropus Erectus' and 'The Clown'. The outtakes show the bassist-composer rehearsing his workshop band through multiple arrangements of the same pieces.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, improvisational, complex, virtuosic, live

Tracklist

  1. Better Git It In Your Soul (8:30)
  2. Bird Calls (4:53)
  3. Jelly Roll (6:41)
  4. Song With Orange (6:42)
  5. Diane (7:29)
  6. New Now Know How (4:19)

Credits

  • Charles Mingus - primary artist, bass, composed by
  • Shafi Hadi - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
  • Rene Arsenault - production manager [production assistance]
  • Seth Rothstein - project manager [project director]

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