Take one look at the ratings for the albums listed below and you can probably guess that I’m a little biased. Charles Mingus is my favorite jazz musician of all time, with good reason. One listen to his music and you’ll be hooked too.
Discography
- Jazz at Massey Hall (1953, with The Quintet) A
- The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus (1955) B+
- Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) A+
- The Clown (1957) A
- East Coasting (1957) B+
- Mingus Three (1957) B
- A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry (1957) B+
- Mingus Ah Um (1959) A+
- Blues & Roots (1960) A
- Mingus Dynasty (1960) A-
- Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (1960) A