Charles Mingus - The Complete Columbia & RCA Albums Collection (2012) [10CD, Box Set]

The ten-disc 2012 Charles Mingus anthology The Complete Columbia & RCA Albums Collection brings together all of the legendary bassist's albums recorded for Columbia and RCA from the '50s to the '70s. Included here are 1959's Mingus Dynasty, 1959's Mingus Ah Um, 1962's Tijuana Moods, 1972's Let My Children Hear Music, and 1972's Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert. Also featured is Gunther Schuller's 1989 recording of the lengthy, 130-minute Mingus composition released in 1990 as Epitaph. There are also three discs of alternate takes from the various releases.
Tracks:
Tijuana Moods (Disc 1)
01 Dizzy Moods
02 Ysabel's Table Dance
03 Tijuana Gift Shop
04 Los Mariachis
05 Flamingo
06 Dizzy Moods (Composite Partial Alternate Take)
07 Ysabel's Table Dance (Composite Partial Alternate Take)
08 Los Mariachis (Composite Partial Alternate Take)
09 Flamingo (Partial Alternate Take)
Tijuana Moods (Disc 2)
01 Tijuana Gift Shop (Alternate Take)
02 A Colloquial Dream (Aka Scenes In The City)
03 Flamingo (Composite Partial Alternate Take)
04 Ysabel's Table Dance (Composite Partial Alternate Take)
05 Dizzy's Moods (Breakdowns)
06 Dizzy's Moods (Bass Solos)
07 Tijuana Gift Shop (Breakdowns)
08 Tijuana Gift Shop (Solos Edited Out Of Master Take)
09 Los Mariachis (False Start, Breakdowns)
10 Los Mariachis (Breakdowns, False Start)
11 Los Mariachis (Breakdowns, False Starts, Rehearsal)
12 A Colloquial Dream (Breakdown)
13 A Colloquial Dream (Breakdown)
Mingus Ah Um
01 Better Git It In Your Soul
02 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
03 Boogie Stop Shuffle
04 Self-Portrait In Three Colors
05 Open Letter To Duke
06 Bird Calls
07 Fables Of Faubus
08 Pussy Cat Dues
09 Jelly Roll
10 Pedal Point Blues
11 GG Train
12 Girl Of My Dreams
Mingus Dinasty
01 Slop
02 Diane
03 Song With Orange
04 Gunslinging Bird
05 Things Ain't What They Used To Be
06 Far Wells, Mill Valley
07 New Now Know How
08 Mood Indigo
09 Put Me In That Dungeon
10 Strollin'
Alternate Takes
01 Better Git It In Your Soul (Alternate)
02 Bird Calls (Alternate)
03 Jelly Roll (Alternate)
04 Song With Orange (Alternate)
05 Diane (Alternate)
06 New Now Know How (Alternate)
07 Revelations (First Movement)
08 Non-Sectarian Blues
Let My Children Hear Music
01 The Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers
02 Adagio Ma Non Troppo
03 Don't Be Afraid, The Clown's Afraid Too
04 Taurus In The Arena Of Life
05 Hobo Ho
06 The Chill Of Death
07 The I Of Hurricane Sue
Charles Mingus And Friends In Concert (Disc 1)
01 Introduction By Bill Cosby
02 Jump Monk
03 E.S.P.
04 Ecclusiastics
05 Eclipse
06 Us Is Two
07 Taurus In The Arena Of Life (Aka Number One Grandson)
08 Mingus Blues
09 Introduction To Little Royal Suite
10 Little Royal Suite
Charles Mingus And Friends In Concert (Disc 2)
01 Introduction To Strollin'
02 Strollin'
03 The I Of Hurricane Sue
04 E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too (Aka Hora Decubitus)
05 Ool-Ya-Koo
06 Portrait
07 Don't Be Afraid, The Clown's Afraid Too
Mingus Epitaph (Disc 1)
01 Main Score Part 1
02 Percussion Discussion
03 Main Score Part 2
04 Started Melody
05 Better Get It In Your Soul
06 The Soul
07 Moods In Mambo
08 Self Portrait (Chill Of Death)
09 O.P. (Oscar Pettiford)
10 Please Don't Come Back From The Moon
Mingus Epitaph (Disc 2)
01 Monk, Bunk & Vice Versa (Osmotin')
02 Peggy's Blue Skylight
03 Wolverine Blues
04 The Children's Hour Of Dream
05 Ballad (In Other Words, I Am Three)
06 Freedom
07 Interlude (The Underdog Rising)
08 Noon Night
09 Main Score Reprise

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