I Heard Mingus

I Heard Mingus

Studio album by

Released

1980

Recorded

January 5, 1980

Studio

Sound Ideas Studio, New York City

Length

36:20

Interplay IP 7729

Toshiya Taenaka

Ted Curson chronology

The Trio
(1979)

I Heard Mingus
(1980)

Snake Johnson
(1980)

I Heard Mingus is an album by trumpeter Ted Curson which was recorded in 1980 and first released on the Interplay label.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Ted Curson except as indicated

"I Heard Mingus" - 9:04
"Please, Please, Please Don't Put the Pigsfoot in the Kreplach Soup" - 9:15
"Lost Her" - 10:01
"Lin's Garden" (Ted Curson, Graham Collier) - 8:00

Personnel

Ted Curson - trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet, percussion
Bill Saxton - tenor saxophone (tracks 2 & 4)
Mike Morgenstern - baritone saxophone (tracks 2 & 4)
Jim McNeely - piano (tracks 2–4)
Ryo Kawasaki - guitar
Mike Richmond - bass, electric bass
Adam Nussbaum - drums
Montego Joe - percussion (track 2 & 4)

References

^ Ted Curson discography accessed February 27, 2015
^ Fitzgerald, M., Ted Curson leader entry, accessed February 27, 2015
^ Interplay Records discography accessed May 9, 2017

v t e Ted Curson
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Plenty of Horn (1961) Ted Curson Plays Fire Down Below (1962) Flip Top (1964–66) Tears for Dolphy (1964) The New Thing & the Blue Thing (1965) Urge (1966) Ode to Booker Ervin (1970) Pop Wine (1971) Cattin' Curson (1973) Quicksand (1974) Blue Piccolo (1976) Jubilant Power (1976) Blowin' Away (and Dizzy Reece, 1978) The Trio (1979) I Heard Mingus (1980) Snake Johnson (1981)
With Charles Mingus	Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (1960) Mingus (with Charles Mingus, 1960) Mingus at Antibes (with Charles Mingus, 1960) Mingus Revisited/Pre-Bird (with Charles Mingus, 1960)
With others	California Cookin' (Pepper Adams, 1983) The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron (1961) Modern Windows (Bill Barron, 1961) Baritone Madness (Nick Brignola and Pepper Adams, 1977) Hoarded Dreams (Graham Collier, 1983) Spiral (Andrew Hill, 1974–75) Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (New York Contemporary Five, split album, 1964) Fire Music (Archie Shepp, 1965) Love for Sale (Cecil Taylor, 1959) Seant (Andrzej Trzaskowski, 1965–66)