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Miles Davis made his name as a bandleader in the first half of the 1950s, defining the genre of hard bop alongside regular players such as Horace Silver, Kenny Clarke, and Percy Heath, luminaries like J. J. Johnson and a young Sonny Rollins, and briefer and more contentious collaborators including Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk. Yet this was also...

From the buoyant gospel of 'Better Git It In Your Soul' and the mournful grace of 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat' to the caustic protest song 'Fables of Faubus', on Mingus Ah Um the double bassist and redoubtable bandleader Charles Mingus produced one of his most diverse and accessible albums. Mingus Ah Um was recorded over two sessions on 5 and...