Conjunto de 4 CDs com foco nas gravações feitas por Mingus entre 1956 e 1960, um período chave em sua carreira, que gerou os lendários álbuns Pithecanthropus Erectus, The Clown, Tijuana Moods ("o melhor disco que já fiz" para ele), Blues And Roots, Mingus Ah Um ( o melhor para nós) ,Mingus Dybasty e Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus, seleções de cada um estão incluídas aqui:
TRACKS
CD 1-Love Chant
1-1 Pithecanthropus Erectus 10:41
1-2 A Foggy Day 7:53
1-3 Love Chant 14:56
1-4 Profile of Jackie 3:07
1-5 Blue Cee 7:48
1-6 Haitian Fight Song 11:57
1-7 Dizzy Moods 5:47
1-8 Ysabel's Table Dance 10:24
1-9 Flamingo 5:31
CD 2-Better Git It In Your Soul
2-1 Los Mariachis 10:18
2-2 Tijuana Gift Shop 4:39
2-3 51st Street Blues 5:45
2-4 East Coasting 5:10
2-5 Memories Of You 4:23
2-6 West Coast Ghost 10:23
2-7 Conversation 5:26
2-8 Celia 7:51
2-9 Cryin' Blues 4:59
2-10 E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too 6:42
2-11 Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting 5:40
2-12 Better Git It In Your Soul 7:53
CD 3-Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
3-1 Bird Calls 6:18
3-2 Fables Of Faubus 8:14
3-3 Pussy Cat Dues 9:15
3-4 Jelly Roll 6:17
3-5 Open Letter To Duke 5:51
3-6 Boogie Stop Shuffle 5:03
3-7 Self-Portrait In Three Colors 3:10
3-8 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 5:44
3-9 Diane 7:28
3-10 Far Wells, Mill Valley 6:11
3-11 New Now, Know How 4:12
3-12 Put Me In The Dungeon 2:51
3-13 Mood Indigo 8:12
CD 4-What Love?
4-1 Folk Forms No. 1 12:00
4-2 Original Faubus Fables 9:15
4-3 What Love 15:20
4-4 All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother 8:32
4-5 Stormy Weather 13:25
4-6 MDM 19:52
