Mingus Dynasty
| Mingus Dynasty | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | May 1960 | |||
| 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 | ||||
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| AllMusic | |
| Down Beat (Original LP release) | |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | |
Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on Columbia Records in May 1960. 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.
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.