 | Blues & Roots by Charles Mingus
Buy new: $13.96 / Used from: $4.48 With the tremendous tenor of Booker Ervin taking centre stage, this set features some of Mingus' most memorable compositions played with astonishing swing and fire. If you could only own one Mingus album, this would be it.
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 | Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.50 His most polished studio album, released on Columbia.
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 | Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus by Charles Mingus
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $32.74 A pianoless quartet with Dannie Richmond (drums), Ted Curson (trumpet) and the inimitable Eric Dolphy on a variety of reeds. (His bass clarinet 'conversations' with Mingus are priceless.) Gives the 'new thing' of Ornette Coleman a real run for its money.
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 | Mingus At Antibes by Charles Mingus
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.86 The same lineup as above, plus Booker Ervin. Amazing long workouts of monumental music. Add a great feature for the legendary Bud Powell and you have a legendary album.
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 | Oh Yeah by Charles Mingus
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.98 Mingus yields the bass to the great Doug Watkins and leads the band with piano and voice. Reedsman Rahsaan Roland Kirk proves the perfect foil.
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 | The Clown by Charles Mingus
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.96 When you checking out Mingus' earlier recordings as a leader, this one edges out Pithecanthropus Erectus by a hair.... but both are great.
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 | Money Jungle by Duke Ellington
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.77 The most ferocious bass playing you'll ever hear.
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 | East Coasting by Charles Mingus
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $3.88 An underrated set, finds Mingus in a deliberately more laid-back groove, with lovely results.
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 | The Great Concert of Charles Mingus by Charles Mingus
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $12.94 Jaki Byard, Eric Dolphy, Mingus. What more can you say?
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 | Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus by Charles Mingus
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.70 Of Mingus' releases on Impulse, a lot of critics prefer Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, but (like Tijuana Moods) that album is really for hardcore Mingus fans only. This set, which (Monk-style) re-records early compositions in fresh new arrangements, is far more enjoyable.
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 | Pithecanthropus Erectus by Charles Mingus
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $6.69 See The Clown, above.
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 | Changes One by Charles Mingus
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.98 There's a sense that all of Mingus' best work was behind him after 1964, so it's important to know he still had it towards the end.
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