https://jazzfuel.com/best-charles-mingus-albums/ Your Resource For All Things Jazz Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:14:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://jazzfuel.com/best-charles-mingus-albums/#comment-23640 Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:14:18 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=59979#comment-23640 Got Charles Mingus correct…but not the album. I have most of the other albums as well as a 4-disc composite, each of which is about 75-80 minutes long. I also have a Mingus biography and sonbook to play along with on my tenor sax. Have to transpose from concert C to Bb. His music can be joyous, spiritual and totally chaotic. His bass playing is the best. Love his use of a bari sax. His Ellington, Sounds of Love is a wonderful piece I never tire of listening to or playing along. Mingus is one of the great jazz composers along with Monk, Coltrane and Miles. Happy New Year.

]]> https://jazzfuel.com/best-charles-mingus-albums/#comment-22125 Mon, 08 Jul 2024 04:48:26 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=59979#comment-22125 This list is very good. Yes the Candid recordings could be added. Town Hall Concert is great.

]]> https://jazzfuel.com/best-charles-mingus-albums/#comment-19001 Tue, 13 Feb 2024 21:44:00 +0000 http://jazzfuel.com/?p=59979#comment-19001 Very much worth checking out are his Candid recordings with Eric Dolphy.
One with Roy Eldridge and Dolphy. A later Atlantic ,Three or Four Shades of Blues is good.

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