Mingus Ah Um | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | October 1959[1][2] | |||
Recorded | 5–12 May 1959 | |||
Studio | Columbia 30th Street (New York City) | |||
Genre | Post-bop, jazz[3][4] | |||
Length | 45:53 Original edited LP 57:07 Unedited LP and CD versions | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Teo Macero | |||
Charles Mingus chronology | ||||
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Mingus Ah Um is a studio album by American jazz musician Charles Mingus which was released in October 1959 by Columbia Records.[1][2] It was his first album recorded for Columbia. The cover features a painting by S. Neil Fujita.[5] The title is a corruption of an imaginary Latin declension. It is common for Latin students to memorize Latin adjectives by first saying the masculine nominative (usually ending in "-us"), then the feminine nominative ("-a"), and finally the neuter nominative singular ("-um")[6]—implying a transformation of his name, Mingus, Minga, Mingum. The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2013.[7]