Mingus at the Bohemia

Mingus at the Bohemia is a live album by the jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus. It was released in August 1956 through Mingus's own label Debut Records.^[1][4] It was recorded at Café Bohemia in New York City on December 23, 1955. Max Roach makes a guest appearance on one track. Other recordings from the same performance were released in 1964 under the title The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach.

Mingus at the Bohemia
Live album by Charles Mingus
Released	August 1956 (1956-08)[1]
Recorded	December 23, 1955
Venue	Café Bohemia, New York City
Genre	Avant-garde jazz
Length	41:04
Label	Debut
Charles Mingus chronology
The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus (1954) Mingus at the Bohemia (1956) Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

Mingus at the Bohemia has also been released under the title Chazz! and credited to The Charles Mingus Quintet.^[5]

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4.5 stars, citing Mingus' standout bass playing and noting that "this is the first Mingus recording to feature mostly his own compositions."^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Jump Monk"	Charles Mingus	6:44
2.	"Serenade In Blue"	Mack Gordon, Harry Warren	5:57
3.	"Percussion Discussion"	Mingus, Max Roach	8:25
4.	"Work Song"	Mingus	6:16
5.	"Septemberly"	Al Dubin, Harry Warren / Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence	6:55
6.	"All The Things You C#"	(Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II / Sergei Rachmaninoff)	6:47

1990 Fantasy, Inc. CD reissue additional tracks:

No.	Title	Length
7.	"Jump Monk (Alternate Take)"	11:38
8.	"All The Things You C# (Alternate Take)"	10:44

Notes:

• "Septemberly" is Mingus' compositional combination of "September in the Rain" by Dubin and Warren, and "Tenderly" by Gross and Lawrence.
• "All The Things You C#" is Mingus' compositional combination of "All The Things You Are" by Kern and Hammerstein, and "Prelude in C-sharp minor" by Rachmaninoff.
• On some reissues, a brief spoken intro and false start are omitted from track 8 for a reduced length of 9:50.^[2][6]

Personnel

• George Barrow - tenor saxophone
• Eddie Bert - trombone
• Mal Waldron - piano
• Charles Mingus - double bass (bass and overdubbed piccolo bass on "Percussion Discussion"^[7])
• Willie Jones - drums (except "Percussion Discussion"^[7])
• Max Roach - drums (on "Percussion Discussion"^[7])