Setlist
001. What Is This Thing Called Love (5:40)
002. I´m Beginning To See the Light (5:30)
003. Laura (4:19)
004. Lady Bird (5:42)
005. Schizophrenic Samovar (tea for Two) (7:24)
006. Trois Mots Petit (Three litttle Words) (3:30)
Billy Taylor Trio:
Billy Taylor: piano
Charles Mingus: bass
Marquis Foster: drums
Nat Hentoff Intro
Storyville, Boston 1951-11-06
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007. Got No Lead In My Pencil (2:51)
008. Let's Go Again (3:01)
Darby Hicks Quartette:
"The Lead Man": vocals 1
Carolyn Richards: vocals 2
Darby Hicks: piano
Buddy Harper: guitar
Buddy Collette: sax
Charles Mingus: bass
Recorded 1946 California
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009. Goldwyn Stomp (2:39)
010. Red Top (2:54)
011. Giddy Up (3:03)
Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra
Leo Sheppard, Duke Garrette, Wendell Culley, Teddy Buckner, Snooky Young:
trumpets
Andrew Penn, James Robinson, Britt Woodman, James Wormick: trombones
Bobby Plater, Ben Kynard: alto sax
Jack Kelso: clarinet, alto sax
Morris Lane, John Sparrow: tenor sax
Charlie Fowlkes: baritone sax
Lionel Hampton: vibraphone
Milt Buckner: piano
Billy Mackel: guitar
Joe Comfort, Charles Mingus: bass
Earl Walker: drums
Recorded 1947-11-03, Los Angeles
78 rpms released by Decca
unknown location, ca 1951
Storyville 6 11 1951
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012. The Clown outtakes (from take 24 to 47) (32:45)
Charles Mingus: bass
Jimmy Knepper: trombone
Shafi Hadi: tenor sax
Wade Legge: piano
Dannie Richmond: drums
Jean Shepherd: narration
Outtakes, Audio-Video Studios, NYC 1957-02-13
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013. Confirmation (5:01)
014. Just Bohemia + Intro (1:35)
015. What Is This Thing Called Love? (3:18)
Charles Mingus: bass
Jackie McLean: alto sax
Donald Byrd, Bill Hardman or Clarence Shaw: trumpet
Phineas Newborn: piano on What´s This Thing Called Love
unidentified piano player on the first two tracks
unidentified guitar player
Dannie Richmond: drums
Café Bohemia, Greenwich Village, NYC 1957
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016. The Arts Of Tatum and Freddie Webster (5:31)
'17. Don´t Let It Happen Here (3:13)
Charles Mingus: bass, piano, narration
Hobart Dotson: trumpet
Lonnie Hillyer: trumpet
Jimmy Owens: trumpet, fluegelhorn
Julius Watkins: french horn
Howard Johnson: tuba
Charles McPherson: alto sax
Dannie Richmond: drums
Village Gate NYC 1965-09-10
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018. interview (2:23)
Village Gate and Monterey 1965
performances
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019. Introductory remarks by Duke Ellington (1:19)
020. The Clown (09:56)
021. Mingus interview (3:53)
The Duke Ellington Orchestra
Zellerbach Auditorium, University Of California, Berkeley, CA 1969-09-29
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022. Haitian Fight Song (4:59)
Roland Kirk: tenor, manzello, stritch, flute, with:
Charles Mingus: bass
Archie Shepp: tenor sax
Roy Haynes: drums
+ the house band
Ed Sullivan show 1971-01-24
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023-027. Solo piano outtakes
023 wedding march 1 (2:43)
024 wedding march 2-3 (2:55)
025 wedding march 4-5 (2:31)
026 wedding march 6-7-8- (1:13)
027 wedding march 10 -11-13 (1:25)
028 Guitar and bass Outtakes (4:29)
Record Plant Studios, NYC, 1977-05-01
Takes 9 and 12 officially released not present here
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029. Themes From A Movie (4:33)
Charles Mingus: solo piano
10th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 1976
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030. Noddin Ya Head Blues (10:49)
Charles Mingus: bass
Ricky Ford: tenor sax
Jack Walrath: trumpet
Robert Neloms: piano
Dannie Richmond: drums
Solís Theatre, Montevideo, Uruguay 1977-05-31
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