01.Dizzy Moods
02.Ysabel's Table Dance
03.Tijuana Gift Shop
04.Mariachis (The Street Musicians)
05.Flamingo
06.Dizzy Moods [Alternate Take]
07.Tijuana Gift Shop [Alternate Take]
08.Los Mariachis [Alternate Take]
09.Flamingo [Alternate Take].
Frankie Dunlop — Percussion
Lonnie Elder — Vocals
Jimmy Knepper — Trombone
Charles Mingus — Bass, Conductor, Leader, Liner Notes
Ysabel Morey — Castanets
Curtis Porter — Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
Dannie Richmond — Drums
Clarence Gene Shaw — Trumpet
Bill Triglia — Piano.
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When it was first released in 1962, five years after it was recorded, Charles Mingus declared this musical account of a bacchanalian trip to the notorious border town the best record he ever made. That may be exaggeration, but it's certainly one of Mingus's best, a suite of pieces that gives form to the range of both his oversized emotions and his varied compositional techniques. The sextet, which sounds like a far larger group, includes several musicians who would become perennial Mingus associates--drummer Dannie Richmond and trombonist Jimmy Knepper--as well as the gifted trumpeter Clarence Shaw, an obscure musician with a distinctive lyricism. In its tumult, passionate breadth, and programmatic content, Tijuana Moods looks ahead to Mingus's later masterpiece, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. --Stuart Broomer.
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