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3	''Mingus Ah Um'' is a 1959 album by {{Jazz}} musician Music/CharlesMingus. It was inducted in the UsefulNotes/NationalRecordingRegistry in 2003 for being "historically, culturally and aesthetically important."
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5	!!'''Tracklist'''
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7	[[AC: Side One]]
8	# "Better Git It in Your Soul" (7:23)
9	# "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" (5:44) [[note]] 4:46 minutes on the original LP [[/note]]
10	# "Boogie Stop Shuffle" (5:02) [[note]] 3:41 minutes on the original LP [[/note]]
11	# "Self-Portrait in Three Colors" (3:10)
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13	[[AC:Side Two]]
14	# "Open Letter to Duke" (5:51) [[note]] 4:56 minutes on the original LP [[/note]]
15	# "Bird Calls" (6:17) [[note]] 3:12 minutes on the original LP [[/note]]
16	# "Fables of Faubus" (8:13)
17	# "Pussy Cat Dues" (9:14) [[note]] 6:27 minutes on the original LP [[/note]]
18	# "Jelly Roll" (6:17) [[note]] 4:01 minutes on the original LP [[/note]]
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20	'''Bonus tracks on later reissues'''
21	# "Pedal Point Blues" (6:30)
22	# "GG Train" (4:39)
23	# "Girl of My Dreams" (4:08)
24	----
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26	!!'''Personnel'''
27	* Music/CharlesMingus: bass, piano
28	* John Handy: alto sax, clarinet, tenor sax
29	* Booker Ervin: tenor sax
30	* Shafi Hadi: tenor sax, alto sax
31	* Willie Dennis: trombone
32	* Jimmy Knepper: trombone
33	* Horace Parlan: piano.
34	* Dannie Richmond: drums
35	----
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37	!! Goodbye Trope Pie Hat:
38	* AlliterativeTitle: "'''F'''ables of '''F'''aubus".
39	* AnimalMotifs: "Bird Calls", "Pussy Cat Dues".
40	* CallAndResponseSong: "Fables of Faubus"
41	* CanisLatinicus: The album title is based on the patterns that students of Latin memorize for the declension of adjectives, treating Mingus' last name as the masculine nominative form.
42	* ColorMotif: "Self-Portrait in Three Colors".
43	* DesignStudentsOrgasm and MinimalisticCoverArt: The album cover is an abstract image, painted by S. Neil Fujita.
44	* {{Homage}}: “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” is a homage to Lester Young, “Open Letter To Duke” to Music/DukeEllington, “Jelly Roll” to Music/JellyRollMorton.
45	* {{Instrumental}}: All tracks are instrumental. In the case of "Fables of Faubus", thanks to ExecutiveMeddling - Columbia Records thought the [[https://genius.com/Charles-mingus-fables-of-faubus-lyrics lyrics]] were too political and insisted that he record the song as an instrumental instead.
46	--> ''BOO! NAZI FASCIST SUPREMISTS! BOO! KU KLUX KLAN!''
47	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” is a homage to saxophonist Lester Young, who died a year earlier and was well known for wearing a pork pie hat. “Fables of Faubus” was written because of Orval E. Faubus, governor of Arkansas’ infamous stand against integration of the schools in his state in defiance of the US Supreme Court, forcing UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower to send in the National Guard.
48	* RepurposedPopSong: “Self-Portrait in Three Colors” was originally written for Creator/JohnCassavetes film ‘’Film/{{Shadows}}’’, but never used because of lack of budget. It ended on this album instead. “Fables Of Faubus” would be recorded again on “Presents Charles Mingus” (1961), this time with lyrics.
49	* RuleOfThree: "Self-Portrait in Three Colors".
50	* SelfTitledAlbum: "Mingus Ah Um".
51	* ShoutOut:
52	** "Open Letter to Duke", as in Music/DukeEllington, in whose band Mingus had briefly played.
53	** Music/JoniMitchell added lyrics to "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" on her album ''Mingus'' (1979), a collaboration with Mingus during the months before he passed away.
54	** Music/RolandKirk also composed lyrics to the song, included on his album "The Return of the 5000 Lb. Man" (1976).
55	* StudioChatter: Mingus can famously be heard shouting instructions and [[BigYes general encouragement]] to his musicians on several songs, especially "Better Git It In Your Soul".
56	* TakeThat: "Fables Of Faubus" is [[ProtestSong aimed at]] governor Orval E. Faubus, who defied multiracial schools in his state Arkansas.

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