Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus

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Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
Studio album by Charles Mingus
Released	1987
Recorded	19 October 1960 at Nola Penthouse Sound Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	46:23
Label	Candid
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Charles Mingus chronology
Mingus at Antibes (1960) Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (1960) Reincarnation of a Lovebird (1960)

Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus; it was recorded and released in 1960.

The album features a quartet, a small band for Mingus, in somewhat poor recording conditions on the small label Candid run by Nat Hentoff (Mingus recorded in 1959 on Columbia). One reason for the switch of labels was to record his composition "Fables Of Faubus" (here named "Original Faubus Fables") in its entirety: the version that appears on Mingus Ah Um is without its controversial lyrics (sung by Mingus and drummer Dannie Richmond) as Columbia felt it would cause problems in referring to Governor Orval Faubus as a "Nazi fascist".

[edit] Track listing

1. "Folk Forms No. 1" – 13:08
2. "Original Faubus Fables" – 9:19
3. "What Love?" – 15:23
4. "All The Things You Could Be By Now if Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother" – 8:33

[edit] Personnel

• Charles Mingus – bass
• Ted Curson – trumpet
• Eric Dolphy – alto saxophone and bass clarinet
• Dannie Richmond – drums