Charles Mingus - Passions of a Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961
Genre: Jazz
Singer: Charles Mingus
Title: Passions of a Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961
Short-info: Label: Rhino Records ‎– R2 72871
Type: 6 x CD, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered Box Set, Compilation
Country: US
Date of released: 2013
Category: Jazz
Style: Bop, Post Bop, Avant-garde Jazz
MP3 album size .rar: 1275 mb
APE album size .rar: 1644 mb
Digital formats: MP3 FLAC DTS VOX MP1 MMF WMA WAV RA

Tracklist Hide Credits

1-1 Pithecanthropus Erectus 10:33
1-2 A Foggy Day 7:47
1-3 Love Chant 14:56
1-4 Profile Of Jackie 3:07
1-5 Laura 4:52
1-6 When Your Lover Has Gone 2:27
1-7 Just One Of Those Things 6:06
1-8 Blue Greens 11:42
2-1 The Clown
Narrator – Jean Shepherd
12:29
2-2 Passions Of A Woman Loved 9:43
2-3 Blue Cee 7:48
2-4 Tonight At Noon 5:58
2-5 Reincarnation Of A Lovebird 8:31
2-6 Haitian Fight Song 11:57
3-1 E's Flat Ah's Flat Too 6:37
3-2 My Jelly Roll Soul 6:47
3-3 Tensions 6:27
3-4 Moanin' 7:57
3-5 Cryin' Blues 4:58
3-6 Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting 5:42
3-7 E's Flat Ah's Flat Too (Alternate Take) 7:16
3-8 My Jelly Roll Soul (Alternate Take) 11:51
3-9 Tensions (Alternate Take) 5:30
3-10 Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting (Alternate Take) 6:56
4-1 Prayer For Passive Resistance 8:06
4-2 Better Git Hit In Your Soul 11:36
4-3 Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting 11:54
4-4 Folk Forms I 11:08
4-5 What Love? 13:34
4-6 I'll Remember April 13:39
5-1 Devil Woman 9:38
5-2 Ecclusiastics 6:55
5-3 "Old" Blues For Walt's Torin 8:59
5-4 Peggy's Blue Skylight 9:42
5-5 Hog Callin' Blues 7:26
5-6 Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me 5:38
5-7 Passions Of A Man 4:52
5-8 Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am 4:41
5-9 Invisible Lady 4:49
5-10 Eat That Chicken 4:36
6-1 Charles Mingus Interviewed By Nesuhi Ertegun 75:00

Companies, etc.

  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Atlantic Recording Corporation
  • Copyright (c) – Atlantic Recording Corporation

Credits

  • Alto Saxophone – Eric Dolphy (tracks: 4-1 to 4-4, 4-6), Jackie McLean (tracks: 1-1 to 1-5, 3-1 to 3-10), John Handy (tracks: 3-1 to 3-10)
  • Baritone Saxophone – Pepper Adams (tracks: 3-1 to 3-10)
  • Bass – Charles Mingus (tracks: 1-1 to 4-6), Doug Watkins (tracks: 5-1 to 5-10)
  • Bass Clarinet – Eric Dolphy (tracks: 4-5)
  • Drums – Dannie Richmond (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6, 4-1 to 5-10), Ed Shaughnessy (tracks: 1-6 to 1-8), Willie Jones (tracks: 1-1 to 1-5)
  • Flute, Siren, Saxophone [Manzello, Strich] – Roland Kirk (tracks: 5-1 to 5-10)
  • Interviewee – Charles Mingus (tracks: 6-1)
  • Interviewer – Nesuhi Ertegun (tracks: 6-1)
  • Piano – Bud Powell (tracks: 4-6), Charles Mingus (tracks: 4-2 to 4-3, 5-1 to 5-10), Hall Overton (tracks: 1-6 to 1-8), Horace Parlan (tracks: 3-2 to 3-6, 3-8 to 3-10), Mal Waldron (tracks: 1-1 to 1-5, 3-1, 3-7), Wade Legge (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6)
  • Tenor Saxophone – Booker Ervin (tracks: 3-1 to 3-10, 4-1 to 4-5, 5-1 to 5-10), J.R. Monterose (tracks: 1-1 to 1-5), Roland Kirk (tracks: 5-1 to 5-10), Shafi Hadi (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6)
  • Trombone – Jimmy Knepper (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6, 3-1 to 3-10, 5-1 to 5-10), Willie Dennis (tracks: 3-1 to 3-10)
  • Trumpet – Ted Curson (tracks: 4-1 to 4-6)
  • Vibraphone – Teddy Charles (tracks: 1-6 to 1-8)
  • Voice – Charles Mingus (tracks: 5-1 to 5-10)

Notes

2013 repackaging in clamshell box with cds in individual cardsleeves and 112-page booklet

Date and location:
Disc 1, 1-5: January 30, 1956, Audio-Video Studios, New York City
Disc 1, 5-8: November 12, 1956, New York City
Disc 2, 1: February 13, 1957, Audio-Video Studios, New York City
Disc 2: 2-6: March 12, 1957, Atlantic Studios, New York City
Disc 3: February 4, 1959, Atlantic Studios, New York City
Disc 4: July 13, 1960, Antibes Jazz Festival, Juan-les-Pins, France
Disc 5: November 6, 1961, Atlantic Studios, New York City
Disc 6: late 1961/early 1962, Nesuhi Ertegun's office, Atlantic Records, New York City

Original issue (year):
Disc 1, 1-5: Atlantic 1237 as "Pithecanthropus Erectus" (July 1956)
Disc 1, 5-8: Atlantic 1274 as Teddy Charles' "Word From Bird" (June 1958)
Disc 2, 1,3,5,6: Atlantic 1260 as "The Clown" (August 1957)
Disc 2, 2,4; Disc 5, 3,4,9: Atlantic 1416 as "Tonight At Noon" (June 1964)
Disc 3, 1-6: Atlantic 1305 as "Blues & Roots" (March 1960)
Disc 3, 7-10: previously unissued
Disc 4: Atlantic 2-3001 as "Mingus At Antibes" (October 1976)
Disc 5, 1,2,5-8,10: Atlantic 1377 as "Oh Yeah" (April 1962)
Disc 6: previously unissued extended interview; edited version originally appeared on CD reissue of "Oh Yeah", Atlantic 90667-2

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 0 8122-79652-3 5

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
R2 72871 Charles Mingus Passions Of A Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961 ‎(6xCD, Album, RE, RM + Box, Comp) Rhino Records R2 72871 US 1997
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