Tijuana Moods is a 1962 album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...

 that was originally recorded in 1957. It was reissued in 1996 on CD as New Tijuana Moods with four alternate takes.

It is notable that the name "Charlie Mingus" is on the cover of the 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"). All songs were composed by Mingus except "Flamingo".

Reception

• Down Beat
  Down Beat
  Down Beat is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond" to indicate its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years. The publication was established in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois...
  
  (p. 80) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Tijuana Moods is] the 1957 masterpiece on which Mingus asserts full control over his longform chops."

• Down Beat
  Down Beat
  Down Beat is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond" to indicate its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years. The publication was established in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois...
  
  (12/01, p. 90) - 4.5 stars out of 5 - "This collection allows us to observe Mingus in the midst of his truly creative process."

• Uncut
  UNCUT (magazine)
  Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London. It is available across the English-speaking world, and focuses on music, but also includes film and books sections...
  
  (8/01, p. 96) - 5 stars out of 5 - "[A] mindblowing collection....Its breathtaking scope prefigures many innovations made under the rock rubric in the Sixties."

Track listing

All compositions by Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...

 except where noted.

1. "Dizzy Moods"
2. "Ysabel's Table Dance"
3. "Tijuana Gift Shop"
4. "Los Mariachis (The Street Musicians)"
5. "Flamingo
   Flamingo (song)
   "Flamingo" is a popular song and jazz standard written byTed Grouya and Edmund Anderson and first performed by Herb Jeffries and Duke Ellington...
   
   " (Ted Grouya
   Ted Grouya
   Ted Grouya born Theodor Grouya in Bucharest, Romania, was a composer who studied composition with Nadia Boulanger...
   
   )

Track listing of 2010 Expanded Edition

Released on Columbia/Legacy (catalog number 88697694392).

Disc 1

1. "Dizzy Moods"
2. "Ysabel's Table Dance"
3. "Tijuana Gift Shop"
4. "Los Mariachis"
5. "Flamingo
   Flamingo (song)
   "Flamingo" is a popular song and jazz standard written byTed Grouya and Edmund Anderson and first performed by Herb Jeffries and Duke Ellington...
   
   "
6. "Dizzy Moods (Alternate Take)"
7. "Ysabel's Table Dance (Alternate Take)"
8. "Los Mariachis (Alternate Take)"
9. "Flamingo
   Flamingo (song)
   "Flamingo" is a popular song and jazz standard written byTed Grouya and Edmund Anderson and first performed by Herb Jeffries and Duke Ellington...
   
    (Alternate Take)"

Disc 2

1. "Tijuana Gift Shop (Alternate Take)"
2. "A Colloquial Dream"
3. "Flamingo
   Flamingo (song)
   "Flamingo" is a popular song and jazz standard written byTed Grouya and Edmund Anderson and first performed by Herb Jeffries and Duke Ellington...
   
    (Alternate Take)"
4. "Ysabel's Table Dance (Composite Incomplete Take)"
5. "Dizzy Moods (Junkyard Take 8)"
6. "Dizzy Moods (Bass Solos Take 14)"
7. "Tijuana Gift Shop (Alternate Takes 1-4)"
8. "Tijuana Gift Shop (Alternate Take 6)"
9. "Los Mariachis (Take 1-3)"
10. "Los Mariachis (Take 5-10)"
11. "Los Mariachis (Take 15-23)"
12. "A Colloquial Dream (Take 6)"
13. "A Colloquial Dream (Take 8)"

Personnel

• Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
  
  , bass, vocals
• Clarence Shaw
  Clarence Shaw
  Clarence Eugene Shaw, sometimes credited as Gene Shaw was an American jazz trumpeter....
  
  , trumpet
• Jimmy Knepper
  Jimmy Knepper
  James M. Knepper was an American jazz trombonist.He was a good friend and arranging/transcribing partner of bassist and composer Charles Mingus. Knepper was twice on the receiving end of Mingus' legendary temper...
  
  , trombone
• Shafi Hadi, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Bill Triglia, piano
• Dannie Richmond
  Dannie Richmond
  Dannie Richmond was an American drummer who was best known among jazz fans for his work with Charles Mingus, and among pop fans for his work with Joe Cocker, Elton John and Mark-Almond....
  
  , drums
• Ysabel Morel, castanets, vocals
• Frankie Dunlop
  Frankie Dunlop
  Francis "Frankie" Dunlop is an American jazz drummer.Dunlop grew up in a musical family and began playing guitar at age nine and drums at ten. He was playing professionally by age 16 and received some classical education in percussion...
  
  , percussion
• Lonnie Elder
  Lonne Elder III
  Lonne Elder III was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. In 1973, he along with Suzanne de Passe became the first African Americans to be nominated for the Academy Award for writing...
  
   , voices