Tijuana Moods
| Tijuana Moods | ||||
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| Released | June 1962 | |||
| Recorded | July 18 & August 6, 1957 | |||
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| Length | 35:15 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Producer | Bob Rolontz | |||
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Tijuana Moods is an album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1957 but not released until June 1962. It was reissued in 1986 on CD as New Tijuana Moods with four additional alternate takes and as a double LP with five alternate takes. Two-CD expanded versions with further alternate takes were issued by RCA in 2000 and by Columbia in 2010.
In his notes to the 1986 reissue, Ed Michel said that "[h]ardly anything was recorded as a complete take" and so both the originally issued takes and the alternate versions had been assembled by editing additional sections into base takes.
The name "Charlie Mingus" appears on the cover of the original album. Mingus hated all nicknames derived from Charles ("Don't call me Charlie; that's not a man's name, that's a name for a horse").