Best Charles Mingus Live Albums

What are the best live albums by Charles Mingus?

To find out, I have started a readers poll so please vote for your favourite Charles Mingus live albums. I see a vote as a recommendation that an album is well worth hearing/buying rather than a judgement based on hearing them all. Like many jazz artists, there are far more live albums than all but the most avid fan will want to collect.

What Are The Best Charles Mingus Live Albums?

What Are The FIVE Best Live Albums By Charles Mingus?

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What Other People Say

I’ve searched the Internet to find out what other people have to say are the best live albums by Charles Mingus.

BestLiveAlbums.com – Charles Mingus Best Live Albums

  • Mingus At Antibes
  • Mingus At The Bohemia
  • Mingus At Carnegie Hall
  • Cornell 1964

Steve Hoffman Music Forums – Your favorite Charles Mingus album? includes recommendations for the following…

  • The Great Concert of Charles Mingus
  • Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop
  • Mingus In Wonderland
  • Mingus At Antibes
  • Mingus Live in Europe Vols 1 and 2
  • Live at the Bohemia
  • Live in Amsterdam
  • Music Written for Monterey 1965, Not Heard… Played in Its Entirety at UCLA
  • Town Hall Concert 1964
  • Cornell 1964

It also suggests Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus which was recorded in the studio but made to simulate a concert in a small night club.

DigitalDreamDoor – 100 Greatest Live Jazz Albums includes the following:

  • Mingus at Antibes
  • Right Now Live at the Jazz Workshop
  • Live in Stuttgart 1964

Discogs Groups – Best LIVE Jazz albums recommends the following Mingus live recordings:

  • Town Hall Concert 1964
  • The Complete Town Hall Concert 1962

Quora.com – What is the best Charlie Mingus album

  • Mingus at Antibes

Yahoo.com – What is a great Charles Mingus album?

  • Cornell ’64
  • The Great Concert of Charles Mingus
  • Revenge
  • Mingus At Monterey
  • Mingus In Europe vol’s 1-2
  • Mingus At Antibes

AllAboutJazz.com – The Ten Best Live Jazz Recordings (1953-65) includes…

  • Mingus At Antibes

NewYorker.com – 100 Essential Jazz Albums recommends four Mingus albums including two live recordings…

  • Mingus at the Bohemia
  • Cornell 1964

Charles Mingus is one of my favourite jazz artists and I’m very interested to see how this poll develop when it has 50 or more voters. I’m biased but I think Cornell 1964 might just be the greatest live jazz album ever released but will readers agree?

Perhaps not because there are many different recordings from the 1964 tour Mingus did with Eric Dolphy and that’s bound to split the votes. They didn’t vary the setlists that much and whilst I accept that each performance is unique I do like to see some variation in songs.

What Are The Best Live Jazz Albums Of All Time?

Please vote in my poll to find the best live jazz albums. While you may not have heard all of them, I see a vote as a recommendation to other readers.

What Are The FIVE Best Live Jazz Albums?

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What great live jazz albums have I missed?

You can see the complete list of readers polls at Live Album Polls.

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