Tracklist Hide Credits

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

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.

Credits

• Bass – Charlie Mingus*
• Bass [Arco Bass] – Homer Dench (tracks: 5), Milt Hinton (tracks: 5), Richard Davis (tracks: 5), Ron Carter (tracks: 5)
• Cello – Maurice Brown (tracks: 1, 4, 7), Seymour Barab (tracks: 1, 4, 7)
• Design [Cover Design] – Allen Weinberg
• Drums – Dannie Richmond
• French Horn – Julius Watkins (tracks: 5)
• Mastered By – Vlado Meller
• Photography By [Cover] – David Gahr
• Piano – John Foster (tracks: 5), Roland Hanna (tracks: 1, 4, 5, 7)
• Producer [Original Recordings] – Teo Macero
• Reeds – Bobby Jones (tracks: 5), Charles McPherson (tracks: 5), Danny Banks* (tracks: 5), Jerry Dodgion (tracks: 5)
• Reissue Producer – Mike Berniker
• Remix [Digital] – Glen Kolotkin
• Research – Nathaniel Brewster
• Saxophone – Benny Golson (tracks: 2, 3, 6), Booker Ervin (tracks: 1 to 4, 6, 7), John Handy (tracks: 1 to 4, 6, 7)
• Saxophone, Flute – Jerome Richardson (tracks: 2, 3, 6)
• Trombone – Eddie Bert (tracks: 5), James Knepper* (tracks: 1 to 4, 6, 7), Urbie Green (tracks: 5)
• Trumpet – Donald Ellis* (tracks: 1, 4, 7), Snookie Young* (tracks: 5), Jimmy Nottingham (tracks: 5), Dick Williams* (tracks: 2, 3, 6)
• Written-By – Charles Mingus (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6)

Notes

1, 4, 7 recorded New York 13 November 1959.
2, 3, 6 recorded New York 1 November 1959.
5 recorded New York 23 September 1971.
(c) 1988 CBS Records Inc.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 4988009708829

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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