Charles Mingus in Paris – The Complete America Session

Charles Mingus in Paris – The Complete America Session is an album by Charles Mingus, released in 2006. Rooted in gospel · post-bop · free jazz. Here's what makes it worth your time and what to listen to next.

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Disc 1

• 1 I Left My Heart in San Francisco 4:06
• 2 Reincarnation of a Lovebird 15:11
• 3 Peggy's Blue Skylight 12:53
• 4 Love Is a Dangerous Necessity 4:37
• 5 Blue Bird 18:11
• 6 Pithecanthropus Erectus 16:41

Disc 2

• 1 Reincarnation of a Lovebird: warm up and first false start 0:30
• 2 Reincarnation of a Lovebird: second false start 1:50
• 3 Reincarnation of a Lovebird: third false start 0:07
• 4 Reincarnation of a Lovebird: incomplete 4:51
• 5 Peggy's Blue Skylight: first false start 0:16
• 6 Peggy's Blue Skylight: second false start 0:15
• 7 Peggy's Blue Skylight: third false start and rehearsal 0:38
• 8 Peggy's Blue Skylight (fast version) 9:47
• 9 Blue Bird: incomplete 4:13
• 10 Reprise 0:42
• 11 Love Is a Dangerous Necessity: first false start 1:07
• 12 Love Is a Dangerous Necessity: second false start 1:49
• 13 Pithecanthropus Erectus: first take, incomplete 7:34
• 14 Pithecanthropus Erectus: reprise 0:54
• 15 Pithecanthropus Erectus: rehearsal 0:35
• 16 Pithecanthropus Erectus: false start 0:09
• 17 Pithecanthropus Erectus: to the end 10:03
• 18 Pithecanthropus Erectus: Mingus explanation, restart 2:17

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