Singer: Charlie Mingus
Title: Pre-Bird
Label: Mercury ‎– 6336 321
Series: jazz master –
Type: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
Country: Netherlands
Date of released:
Category: Jazz
Style: Post Bop, Avantgarde
Size MP3 zip: 1810 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1654 mb
Rating: 5.0✭
Format: MP3 DMF AAC VOC APE AIFF AC3 TTA FLAC

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1	Take The "A" Train (Interpolation: Exactly Like You) Written-By – Billy StrayhornWritten-By [Interpolation] – J. McHugh / D. Fields*	3:34
A2	Prayer For Passive Resistance	3:49
A3	Eclipse	3:45
A4	Mingus Fingus No. 2	3:22
A5	Weird Nightmare	3:35
B1	Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me (Interpolation: I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart) Written-By – Bob Russell, Duke EllingtonWritten-By [Interpolation] – Duke Ellington, Henry Nemo, Irving Mills, John Redmond	3:33
B2	Bemoanable Lady	4:32
B3	Half-Mast Inhibition Conductor – Gunther Schuller	8:12

Credits

• Cello – Charles McCracken (tracks: A4, B2, B3)
• Composed By – Charles Mingus (tracks: A2 to A5, B2, B3)
• Design – Helmut Schiefer
• Double Bass – Charles Mingus
• Drums – Dannie Richmond
• Flute – Eric Dolphy (tracks: A1 to A3, A5, B1), Robert DiDomenica (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Yusef Lateef (tracks: A1 to A3, A5, B1)
• Oboe – Harry Shulman (tracks: A4, B2, B3)
• Percussion – George Scott (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Sticks Evans (tracks: A4, B2, B3)
• Piano – Paul Bley (tracks: A1 to A3, A5, B1), Sir Roland Hanna*
• Producer, Other [Recording Director] – Leonard Feather
• Saxophone – William Barron Jr.* (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Booker Ervin (tracks: A1 to A3, A5, B1), Danny Bank (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Eric Dolphy (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Joe Farrell, John LaPorta (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Yusef Lateef (tracks: A4, B2, B3)
• Trombone – Charles Greenlee (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Eddie Bert (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Jimmy Knepper, Slide Hampton (tracks: A4, B2, B3)
• Trumpet – Clark Terry (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Hobart Dotson (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Marcus Belgrave (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Richard Williams (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Ted Curson
• Tuba – Don Butterfield (tracks: A4, B2, B3)
• Vocals – Lorraine Cusson* (tracks: A3, A5)

Notes

Early 70's Dutch Mercury (Philips) jazz master series with different labels than Pre-Bird, Pre-Bird and Pre-Bird

Tracks A4, B2, B3 recorded May 24, 1960; tracks A1 to A3, A5, B1 recorded May 25, 1960.

The original LP was issued as Mercury MG 20627 , according to Brian Priestly, Mingus: A Critical Biography. London.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Rights Society: STEMRA
• Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped): AA 6336 321 1Y 1 ℗ 1961 670 112 04
• Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped): AA 6336 321 2Y 1 ℗ 1961 670 112 04
• Matrix / Runout (on label Side A): 6336 321.1
• Matrix / Runout (on label Side B): 6336 321.2

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
SR 60627	Charlie Mingus*	Pre-Bird ‎(LP, Album)	Mercury	SR 60627	US	1960
6338906	Charlie Mingus*	Pre-Bird ‎(LP, Album, RE)	Mercury	6338906	Brazil	1975
826 496-2	Charles Mingus	Mingus Revisited ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Emarcy	826 496-2	Europe	1986
BT-5309	Charlie Mingus*	Pre-Bird ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, RE)	Mercury	BT-5309	Japan	1979
840 834-2	Charles Mingus	Mingus Revisited ‎(CD, Album, RE)	EmArcy	840 834-2	Switzerland	Unknown