Tracklist Hide Credits

1	Scenes In The City Narrator [Narration] – Melvin Stewart	11:49
2	Nouroog Trumpet – Bill Hardman	4:49
3	New York Sketchbook	8:51
4	Duke's Choice	6:25
5	Slippers	3:27
Bonus Tracks
6	Wouldn't You Written-By – Dizzy Gillespie	8:42
7	Billie's Bounce Written-By – Charlie Parker	9:20
8	Slippers (Alternate Take)	3:49

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – Victor Entertainment, Inc.
• Distributed By – Victor Entertainment, Inc.
• Licensed From – Bethlehem Music Company Inc.

Credits

• Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Shafi Hadi
• Bass – Charles Mingus
• Compiled By, Remastered By – Tom Moulton
• Drums – Dannie Richmond
• Liner Notes – Nat Hentoff
• Piano – Bob Hammer (tracks: 1, 3), Horace Parlan
• Trombone – Jimmy Knepper
• Trumpet – Clarence Shaw (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
• Written-By – Charles Mingus (tracks: 1 to 5, 8)

Notes

Recorded October 1957, New York City.

Comes in mini LP replica with OBI & Japanese insert.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 4988002525683
• Rights Society: JASRAC

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
BCP 6026	Charlie Mingus*	A Modern Jazz Symposium Of Music And Poetry ‎(LP, Album)	Bethlehem Records	BCP 6026	US	1957
BCP 6026	Charlie Mingus*	A Modern Jazz Symposium Of Music And Poetry ‎(LP, Album, RE)	Bethlehem Records	BCP 6026	US	1984
BET 6015-2, BCP 6026	Charlie Mingus*	A Modern Jazz Symposium Of Music And Poetry ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Bethlehem Records, Bethlehem Records	BET 6015-2, BCP 6026	Germany	Unknown
CDGR 131	Charlie Mingus*	A Modern Jazz Symposium Of Music And Poetry ‎(CD, Album, RM)	Charly Records	CDGR 131	Germany	1997
CDSOL-6042	Charles Mingus	A Modern Jazz Symposium Of Music And Poetry ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	Bethlehem Records	CDSOL-6042	Japan	2013

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