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Release Date
March 1960
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Length
6 tracks
Blues & Roots is an album by the American jazz double bassist Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on the Atlantic label in 1960. It has been reissued on CD by both Atlantic and Rhino.
Personnel:
Charles Mingus – bass
John Handy – alto saxophone
Jackie McLean – alto saxophone
Booker Ervin – tenor saxophone
Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone
Jimmy Knepper – trombone
Willie Dennis – trombone
Dannie Richmond – drums
Horace Parlan – piano, except for on "E's Flat Ah's Flat Too"
Mal Waldron – piano on "E's Flat Ah's Flat Too"
Nesuhi Ertegun – producer
Tom Dowd – recording engineer
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