Track Listing
1. Better Git It in Your Soul - (alternate take)
2. Bird Calls - (alternate take)
3. Jelly Roll - (alternate take)
4. Song With Orange - (alternate take)
5. Diane - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
6. New Now, Know How - (alternate take)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Benny Golson, Booker Ervin, Dannie Richmond, Horace Parlan, Jimmy Knepper, Roland Hanna | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
ALTERNATE TAKES contains alternate takes from the albums MINGUS AH UM and MINGUS DYNASTY.
Personnel: Charles Mingus (bass); Shafi Hadi (alto & tenor saxophones); John Handy (alto saxophone); Booker Ervin, Benny Golson (tenor saxophone); Jerome Richardson (baritone saxophone); Richard Williams (trumpet); Jimmy Knepper (trombone); Teddy Charles (vibraphone); Roland Hanna, Horace Parlan, Nico Bunink (piano); Dannie Richmond (drums).
Producer: Teo Macero.
Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.
Recorded at the 30th Street Studio, New York, New York on May 5 and November 1, 1959. Includes liner notes by Brian Priestley.
Digitally remastered using 20-bit technology by Mark Wilder and Rob Schwarz (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York).
As with any collection of alternate takes, these six cuts offer the most to listeners familiar with the original versions. Mingus recorded MINGUS AH UM and MINGUS DYNASTY at a particularly satisfying and fertile point in his career (1959), and this CD includes three alternates from each of those albums. Mingus's music was supremely timely despite drawing on the full range of jazz's then forty-year-old history. His raucous ensemble improvisations had some of the mayhem of the turn-of-the-decade "new thing," but these pieces owed just as much to a healthy appreciation of the 1920's New Orleans front lines. This dichotomy was made explicit in "My Jelly Roll Soul." And while Mingus was firmly associated with the bebop school, a tune like "Better Git It In Your Soul" went further than even Horace Silver in summoning up the deep groove of a sanctified church meeting. Then again, the smart, swift "New Now Know How" makes a nod towards BIRTH OF THE COOL's point of view.
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