Tracklist

01 - Slop
02 - Song with Orange
03 - Gunslinging Bird
04 - Things Ain't What They Used to Be
05 - The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers
06 - Far Wells, Mill Valley
07 - Mood Indigo

personnel :

Maurice Brown , Seymour Barab - cello
Jerome Richardson - flute, saxophone
Bobby Jones - reeds, tenor saxophone
Danny Banks - reeds
John Handy, Benny Golson, Booker Ervin - saxophone
Dick Williams, Snooky Young, Jimmy Nottingham - trumpet
Julius Watkins - French horn
Eddie Bert, Jimmy Knepper, Urbie Green - trombone
John Foster, Roland Hanna - piano
Theodore Cohen - vibraphone
Dannie Richmond - drums

All music is from the 1959 Columbia release MINGUS DYNASTY, except for "The Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers" which is taken from Mingus' 1971 recording LET MY CHILDREN HEAR MUSIC.
Most of the Mingus Dynasty, which features the same lineup as Mingus Ah Um and has a similar feel but is less driving. Inexplicable inclusion of "Shoes of the...." from Let My Children Hear Music, recorded twelve years later. All great music. ~ Michael Katz