CHARLES MINGUS Mingus Dynasty 1966 UK CBS 1st *MONO* - NEAR MINT
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Jan 19, 2017
Sold Date
Jan 9, 2017
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CHARLES MINGUS Mingus Dynasty 1966 UK CBS 1st *MONO* - NEAR MINT
CHARLES MINGUS and his JAZZ GROUPSMingus Dynasty
1966 UK CBS (BPG 62261) FIRST *MONO* PRESSING
Recorded November 1, 1959 and November 13, 1959
THE IS THE FIRST UK ISSUE
TEXTURED SOLID ORANGE CBS LABELS WITH '33' SPEED INDICATION
MATRIX: 62261A-1 / 62261B-1
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FRONT LAMINATED FLIPBACK SLEEVE “Printed in England by Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd., London”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL CBS ADVERTISING INNER SLEEVE
BEAUTIFUL COPY OF A RARE PRESSING - PLAYS LIKE NEW
Mingus Ah Um catapulted Charles Mingus from a much-discussed semi-underground figure to a near-universally accepted and acclaimed leader in modern jazz. Perhaps that's why his Columbia follow-up, Mingus Dynasty, is often overlooked in his canon -- it's lost in the shadow of its legendary predecessor, both because of that album's achievement and the fact that it's just a notch below the uppermost echelon of Mingus' work. Having said that, Mingus Dynasty is still an excellent album; in fact, it's a testament to just how high a level Mingus was working on that an album of this caliber could have gotten lost in the shuffle. There's a definite soundtrack quality to a great deal of the music here, and indeed the majority of Mingus' originals here were composed for film and television scores and an expanded, nine- to ten-piece group. On some pieces, Mingus refines and reworks territory he'd previously hit upon. "Slop," for example, is another gospel-inflected 6/8 stormer, composed for a TV production that requested a piece similar to "Better Get It in Your Soul." The ferocious "Gunslinging Bird" follows a similar pattern, and it's the same piece whose full title, "If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats," is given elsewhere. There are a couple of numbers from the Ellington songbook that both feature cellos -- "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" and a fantastic, eight-minute "Mood Indigo" -- and a couple of pieces that rely on the even more tightly orchestrated approach of Mingus' pre-Pithecanthropus Erectus days -- "Far Wells, Mill Valley" and the atonal but surprisingly tender and melodic "Diane."
Side One:
Slop (6:16)
Diane (7:32)
Song With Orange (6:50)
Gunslinging Bird (5:14)
Side Two:
Things Ain't What They Used To Be (7:36)
Far Wells, Mill Valley (6:14)
New Now, Know How (4:13)
Mood Indigo (8:13)
Put Me In That Dungeon (2:53)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels - barely a spindle trace to be seen
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like new
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Plays as-new throughout with practically nothing to fault - just a couple of one-off ticks noted - nothing really - but I did not clean this copy as it looks so immaculate so these will no doubt disappear after a clean/few spins (I prefer not to clean records unless absolutely necessary)
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Clean and sharp - deep gloss to the front laminate
POST & PACKING:
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