Mingus Dynasty

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Mingus Dynasty
Studio album by Charles Mingus
Released	1959
Recorded	1959
Genre	Jazz
Length	?
Label	Columbia Records
Producer	Teo Macero
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1]
Charles Mingus chronology
Mingus Ah Um 1959 Mingus Dynasty 1959 Pre Bird 1960

Mingus Dynasty is an album by Charles Mingus, recorded and released in 1959, and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Slop"
2. "Diane"
3. "Song With Orange"
4. "Gunslinging Bird"*
5. "Things Ain't What They Used To Be" (M. Ellington)
6. "Far Wells, Mill Valley"
7. "New Now Know How"
8. "Mood Indigo" (I. Mills/B. Bigard/D. Ellington)
9. "Put Me In That Dungeon"
10. "Strollin' " (C. Mingus/G. Gordon)

• Originally, "Gunslinging Bird" was called "If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats".