Mingus Dynasty
Studio album by Charles Mingus
Released	May 1960[1][2][3]
Recorded	November 1 and 13, 1959
Studio	CBS 30th Street Studio, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	59:34
Label	Columbia
Producer	Teo Macero
Charles Mingus chronology
Blues & Roots (1960) Mingus Dynasty (1960) Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (1960)

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
Down Beat (Original LP release)	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[6]

Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on Columbia Records in May 1960.^[1][2][3] It is a companion album to his 1959 record Mingus Ah Um, and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The title alludes to Mingus's ancestry, which was partially Chinese.^[7]

Tracks one, three, four, and five were released in their unedited form in 1979 on vinyl and in 1999 on CD. The cuts amount to about eight minutes.^[8]

All compositions by Charles Mingus except where noted.

1. "Slop" – 6:16
2. "Diane" – 7:32
3. "Song With Orange" – 6:50
4. "Gunslinging Bird" (Originally titled "If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats") – 5:14
5. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington) – 7:36
6. "Far Wells, Mill Valley" – 6:14
7. "New Now Know How" – 4:13
8. "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington) – 8:13
9. "Put Me in That Dungeon" – 2:53
10. "Strollin'" (Originally titled "Nostalgia in Times Square") (Mingus, George Gordon) – 4:33 [Bonus track on CD]

• Charles Mingus – bass
• John Handy – alto sax
• Booker Ervin – tenor sax
• Benny Golson – tenor sax (2, 3, 4, 6, 10)
• Jerome Richardson – baritone sax (2, 3, 4, 6, 10), flute (2)
• Richard Williams – trumpet (2, 3, 4, 6, 10)
• Don Ellis – trumpet (1, 5, 8, 9)
• Jimmy Knepper – trombone
• Roland Hanna – piano (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9)
• Nico Bunink – piano (7, 10)
• Dannie Richmond – drums
• Teddy Charles – vibes (2, 3, 4, 6)
• Maurice Brown – cello (2, 9)
• Seymour Barab – cello (2, 9)
• Honi Gordon – vocals (10)^[9]

In 2009 Sony's Legacy Recordings released a special, two-disc 50th anniversary edition of Mingus's seminal 1959 album Mingus Ah Um that also includes Mingus Dynasty in its entirety on the second disc.^[10]

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