Bands like Charles Mingus
Find similar music, groups and artists.
Looking for bands that sound like Charles Mingus? You’ve come to the right place.
The band Charles Mingus was founded in 1922. Before coming to fame, the band got it’s start in Nogales. Generally, music journalists would define Charles Mingus’s style within the genre/s of jazz, bebop, post-bop, gospel music, hard bop, free jazz, avant-garde jazz, and other rock music.
Our algorythm analyzed all bands in our database and below you find the top results.
Bands that sound like Charles Mingus:
John Coltrane
John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes and was at the forefront of free jazz. He led at le... [wikipedia]
Find more bands like John Coltrane
Eric Dolphy
Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist. On a few occasions, he also played the clarinet and piccolo. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence around ... [wikipedia]
Find more bands like Eric Dolphy
Ornette Coleman
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9 or 19, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer. In the 1960s, he was one of the founders of free jazz, a term he invented for his album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvis... [wikipedia]
Find more bands like Ornette Coleman
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk (, October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straigh... [wikipedia]
Find more bands like Thelonious Monk
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directi... [wikipedia]
Find more bands like Miles Davis
Sonny Rollins
Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as a leader. A numb... [wikipedia]
Find more bands like Sonny Rollins
Cannonball Adderley
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.Adderley is remembered for his 1966 soul jazz single "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", a crossover hit on the pop ch... [wikipedia]
Find more bands like Cannonball Adderley
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Shorter came to wide prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he went on to join Miles Davis's... [wikipedia]
Find more bands like Wayne Shorter
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
No biography for Rahsaan Roland Kirk yet.
Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill (June 30, 1931 – April 20, 2007) was an American jazz pianist and composer.... [wikipedia]
Find more bands like Andrew Hill
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He was one of the first players of the instrument in the bebop idiom of musicians such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell. Gordon's height was 6 feet 6 i... [wikipedia]
Find more bands like Dexter Gordon
Art Blakey
No biography for Art Blakey yet.
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than six decades.Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based... [wikipedia]
Find more bands like Duke Ellington
Cecil Taylor
No biography for Cecil Taylor yet.
Lee Morgan
Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s, Morgan came to prominence in his late teens, recording on John Coltrane's Blue Train (1957) and with the band of d... [wikipedia]
Find more bands like Lee Morgan
Horace Silver
Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s.... [wikipedia]
Find more bands like Horace Silver
What Genre is Charles Mingus?
Charles Mingus genre is not easily defined. Music magazines and journalists have different opinions on a clearly defined genre for Charles Mingus. However, many describe the style within the genre/s of jazz, bebop, post-bop, gospel music, hard bop, free jazz, avant-garde jazz, and other rock music.