| Tijuana Moods | ||||
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| Released | June 1962[1][2] | |||
| Recorded | July 18 & August 6, 1957 | |||
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| Length | 35:15 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Producer | Bob Rolontz | |||
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Tijuana Moods is an album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1957 but not released until June 1962.[1][2][3] It was reissued in 1986 on CD as New Tijuana Moods with four additional alternate takes and as a double LP with five alternate takes. Two-CD expanded versions with further alternate takes were issued by RCA in 2000 and by Columbia in 2010.
In his notes to the 1986 reissue, Ed Michel said that "[h]ardly anything was recorded as a complete take" and so both the originally issued takes and the alternate versions had been assembled by editing additional sections into base takes.[4]
The name "Charlie Mingus" appears on the cover of the original album. Mingus hated all nicknames derived from Charles ("Don't call me Charlie; that's not a man's name, that's a name for a horse"[5]).
- ^ a b "June Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. 16 June 1962. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
- ^ a b "Tijuana Moods". Billboard Music Week. The Billboard Publishing Co. 9 June 1962. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
- ^ Tijuana Moods (Media notes). Charles Mingus. New York: RCA. 1997.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ Michel, Ed (1986). New Tijuana Moods. RCA.
- ^ Priestley, Brian: Mingus: A Critical Biography. New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 1983, p.58.