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A1	Slop	6:12
A2	Song With Orange	6:37
A3	Gunslinging Bird	5:03
A4	Things Ain't What They Used To Be Written-By – Ellington*	7:36
B1	The Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers	9:30
B2	Far Wells, Mill Valley	6:11
B3	Mood Indigo Written-By – Bigard*, Ellington*, Mills*	6:13

Companies, etc.

• Copyright (c) – CBS Records Inc.
• Manufactured By – Columbia Records
• Manufactured By – CBS Records Inc.

Credits

• Bass – Charlie Mingus* (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B3)
• Bass [Arco Bass] – Homer Dench (tracks: B1), Milt Hinton (tracks: B1), Richard Davis (tracks: B1), Ron Carter (tracks: B1)
• Cello – Maurice Brown (tracks: A1, A4, B3), Seymour Barab (tracks: A1, A4, B3)
• Design [Cover Design] – Allen Weinberg
• Drums – Dannie Richmond (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B3)
• French Horn – Julius Watkins (tracks: B1)
• Liner Notes – Chris Albertson
• Mastered By – Vlado Meller
• Photography [Cover] – David Gahr
• Piano – John Foster (tracks: B1), Roland Hanna (tracks: A1, A4, B1, B3)
• Producer [Original Recordings] – Teo Macero
• Reeds – Bobby Jones (tracks: B1), Charles McPherson (tracks: B1), Danny Banks* (tracks: B1), Jerry Dodgion (tracks: B1)
• Reissue Producer – Mike Berniker
• Remix [Digital] – Glen Kolotkin
• Research – Nathaniel Brewster
• Saxophone – Benny Golson (tracks: A2, A3, B2), Booker Ervin (tracks: A1 to A4, B2, B3), John Handy (tracks: A1 to A4, B2, B3)
• Saxophone, Flute – Jerome Richardson (tracks: A2, A3, B2)
• Trombone – Eddie Bert (tracks: B1), James Knepper* (tracks: A1 to A4, B2, B3), Urbie Green (tracks: B1)
• Trumpet – Donald Ellis* (tracks: A1, A4, B3), Snookie Young* (tracks: B1), Jimmy Nottingham (tracks: B1), Dick Williams* (tracks: A2, A3, B2)
• Written-By – Charles Mingus (tracks: A1 to A3, B1 to B2)

Notes

Columbia Jazz Masterpieces series, digitally remastered directly from the original analog tapes.
A1, A4, B3 recorded New York 13 November 1959.
A2, A3, B2 recorded New York 1 November 1959.
B1 recorded New York 23 September 1971.

Previously released on Columbia CS 8236
(B1) Previously released on Columbia KC 31039

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 0 7464-44050-1

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
CK 44050	Charles Mingus	Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife ‎(CD, Comp, RM)	Columbia	CK 44050	US	1988
CK 44050	Charles Mingus	Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife ‎(CD, Comp, RM)	Columbia	CK 44050	Canada	1988
CBS 460822 4	Charles Mingus	Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife ‎(Cass, Comp)	CBS	CBS 460822 4	Europe	1988
CBS 460822 1	Charles Mingus	Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife ‎(LP, Comp, RM)	CBS	CBS 460822 1	UK	1988
CBS 460822 1	Charles Mingus	Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife ‎(LP, Comp, RM)	CBS	CBS 460822 1	Europe	1988

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