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Albums similar to Mingus Ah Um

These are the albums most often named alongside Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to Charles Mingus, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.

1. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
2. John Coltrane - Blue Train
3. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
4. John Coltrane - Giant Steps
5. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
6. Adam Ant - Dirk Wears White Sox
7. Clifford Brown - Damon
8. Dick Berk - Bouncin with Berk
9. Donald Byrd - Slow Drag
10. Eric Dolphy - Out There
11. Gillespie/Stitt/Rollins - Sonny Side Up
12. Hank Mobley - Workout
13. Horace Silver - Cape Verdean Blues
14. John Coltrane - Africa/Brass Vol.1 & 2
15. Johnny Blue Skies - Mutiny After Midnight
16. Keith Jarrett - Standards Live
17. McCoy Tyner - Journey
18. Person/Carter - Something in Common
19. Philip Glass - Music With Changing Parts
20. Susannah McCorkle - Sabia
21. The Modern Jazz Quartet - Django
22. Various Artists - Rare Episodes - Frank Zappa's Unmined Nuggets
23. XTC - Beeswax
24. Zap Mama - Zap Mama
25. Duke Ellington - New Orleans Suite
26. Sarah Vaughan - “Crazy and Mixed Up”
27. Sonny Rollins - Night at Village Vanguard Vol 1
28. The Mermen - Food for Other Fish
29. Wes Montgomery - Amazing Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgom
30. Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder

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