Michael Brecker calls these new collections 'a fantastic resource for music students and professionals alike' and Billy Taylor says they make 'the music of Mingus become more accessible than ever.' This book/CD pack include two CDs featuring both trio and quartet versions of 14 classic Mingus compositions performed by Mingus Big Band members; musical charts; performance notes; rare photographs; a biography; and historical commentary.

Table of contents

Better Get Hit In Your Soul

Boogie Stop Shuffle

Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love

Fables Of Faubus

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Gunslinging Bird

Jelly Roll

Nostalgia In Times Square

Peggy's Blue Skylight

Pithecanthropus Erectus

Portrait

Reincarnation Of A Lovebird

Slippers

Sue's Changes


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