Charles Mingus - Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife (1988)

01.Slop

02.Song with Orange

03.Gunslinging Bird

04.Things Ain't What They Used to Be

05.Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers

06.Far Wells, Mill Valley

07.Mood Indigo.

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