Charles Mingus - Eight Classic Albums (4CD, 2010)

Tracks:

CD1
Mingus Tree (1957)
1-1.Yesterdays 4:15
1-2.Back Home Blues 5:31
1-3.I Can't Get Started 6:31
1-4.Hamp's New Blues 3:54
1-5.Summertime 4:40
1-6.Dizzy Moods 6:53
1-7.Laura 6:33

Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach (1955)
1-8.A Foggy Day 5:36
1-9.Drums 5:38
1-10.Haitian Fight Song 5:27
1-11.Lady Bird 5:58
1-12.I'll Remember April 10:18
1-13.Love Chant 6:59

CD2
The Clown (1957)
2-1.Haitian Fight Song 12:03
2-2.Blue Cee 7:58
2-3.Reincarnation Of A Lovebird 8:34
2-4.The Clown 12:24

East Coasting (1957)
2-5.Memories Of You (Take 7) 4:28
2-6.East Coasting (Take 4) 5:12
2-7.West Coast Ghost (Take 6) 8:56
2-8.Celia (Take 5) 7:05
2-9.Conversation (Take 16) 5:28
2-10.Fifty-First Street Blues (Take 4) 5:46

CD3
Mingus At The Bohemia (1955)
3-1.Jump Monk 6:53
3-2.Serenade In Blue 6:02
3-3.Percussion Discussion 8:36
3-4.Work Song 6:26
3-5.Septemberly 7:04
3-6.All The Things You C-Sharp Minor 6:55

Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956)
3-7.Pithecanthropus Erectus 10:35
3-8.A Foggy Day 7:48
3-9.Profile Of Jackie 3:09
3-10.Love Chant 14:53

CD4
Jazzical Moods Volume 1 (1954)
4-1.What Is This Thing Called Love 8:08
4-2.Stormy Weather 3:17
4-3.Minor Intrusion 10:12
4-4.Abstractions 4:14

Mingus In Wonderland (1959)
4-5.Nostalgia In Times Square 12:18
4-6.I Can't Get Started 10:08
4-7.No Private Income Blues 12:51
4-8.Alice's Wonderland 8:54


Alto Saxophone – Jackie McLean (tracks: 3-7 to 3-10), John Handy (tracks: 4-5 to 4-8), John La Porta* (tracks: 4-1 to 4-4)
Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Shafi Hadi (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
Bass – Charles Mingus
Cello – Jackson Wiley (tracks: 4-1 to 4-4)
Drums – Clem De Rosa (tracks: 4-1 to 4-4), Dannie Richmond (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7, 2-1 to 2-10, 4-5 to 4-8), Max Roach (tracks: 1-8 to 1-13, 3-3), Willie Jones (tracks: 1-8 to 1-13, 3-1 to 3-10)
Narrator [Narration] – Jean Shepherd (2) (tracks: 2-1 to 2-4)
Piano – Bill Evans (tracks: 2-5 to 2-10), Hampton Hawes (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7), Mal Waldron (tracks: 1-8 to 1-13, 3-1 to 3-10), Richard Wyands (tracks: 4-5 to 4-8), Wade Legge (tracks: 2-1 to 2-4)
Tenor Saxophone – Booker Ervin (tracks: 4-5 to 4-8), George Barrow (tracks: 1-8 to 1-13, 3-1 to 3-6), J.R. Monterose (tracks: 3-7 to 3-10), Teo Macero (tracks: 4-1 to 4-4)
Trombone – Eddie Bert (tracks: 1-8 to 1-13, 3-1 to 3-6), Jimmy Knepper (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
Trumpet – Clarence Shaw (tracks: 2-5 to 2-10), Thad Jones (tracks: 4-1 to 4-4)