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Tonight at Noon is an album of music by the jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus. It was released through Atlantic Records in July 1964.

The AllMusic reviewer Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and stated: “While the former session features Mingus going for the blues via European harmonics and melodic approaches with hard bop tempos (particularly on the title track), the latter session with its nocturnal elegance and spatial irregularities comes off more as some kind of exercise in vanguard Ellington with sophisticated harmonies that give way to languid marches and gospel-tinged blues… Despite the fact that this is an assembled album, it holds plenty of magic nonetheless”.

Track listing:
All compositions by Charles Mingus
“Tonight at Noon” – 6:00
“Invisible Lady” – 4:51
“”Old” Blues for Walt’s Torin” [aka “Roland Kirk’s Message”] – 7:57
“Peggy’s Blue Skylight” – 9:46
“Passions of a Woman Loved” – 9:47
Recorded at Atlantic Studios in New York City on March 13, 1957 (tracks 1 & 5) and November 6, 1961

Personnel:
Charles Mingus – bass, piano, vocals
Jimmy Knepper – trombone
Shafi Hadi (as Curtis Porter) (tracks 1 & 5) – alto saxophone
Booker Ervin (tracks 2–4) – tenor saxophone
Roland Kirk – tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, siren, flute (tracks 2–4)
Wade Legge – piano (tracks 1 & 5)
Doug Watkins – bass (tracks 2–4)
Dannie Richmond – drums

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Released: July 1964
Recorded: March 12, 1957, and November 6, 1961
Length:8:08
Label: Atlantic
Producer: Joel Dorn