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Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus is a person from the US, active from 1922.

Person US 1922–1979 jazz post-bop hard bop
TOTAL PLAYS
147
SONGS PLAYED
56
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2010-11-26 19:12 · 6 Music — "Theme For Lester Young"
LAST PLAYED
3 months ago · Radio 2 — "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"
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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2010 — 2026
20 15 10 5 0
'10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 102 69%
Radio 2 41 28%
Radio 1 4 3%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 20:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 21 2026-02-10
2 Better Git It in Your Soul 15 2025-08-25
3 Moanin' 10 2020-06-01
4 Boogie Stop Shuffle 8 2025-02-05
5 Theme for Lester Young 8 2022-08-23
6 Eat That Chicken 6 2023-05-01
7 Haitian Fight Song 6 2020-12-08
8 Fables of Faubus 5 2025-04-29
9 Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting 5 2025-04-21
10 Nostalgia in Times Square 4 2022-04-28
11 II B.S. 3 2022-04-23
12 Self-Portrait in Three Colors 3 2020-01-25
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-02-10 21:37 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Radio 2
2025-11-02 17:20 Better Git It in Your Soul (Part 2 of 2) 6 Music
2025-11-02 16:47 Better Git It in Your Soul (Part 1 of 2) 6 Music
2025-08-25 00:16 Better Git It in Your Soul 6 Music
2025-08-24 13:19 Better Git It in Your Soul 6 Music
2025-04-29 20:34 Fables of Faubus Radio 2
2025-04-21 00:38 Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting 6 Music
2025-04-20 13:44 Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting 6 Music
2025-02-05 02:55 Boogie Stop Shuffle 6 Music
2025-01-21 21:45 Boogie Stop Shuffle Radio 2
2024-12-22 02:00 Myself When I Am Real Radio 1
2024-09-29 20:18 Scenes in the City 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

56 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
A Foggy Day — 1 ▶
Adagio Ma Non Troppo — 2 ▶
Alice's Wonderland — 1 ▶
Back Home Blues — 1 ▶
Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul — 1 ▶
Better Git It in Your Soul — 15 ▶
Better Git It in Your Soul (Part 1 of 2) — 1 ▶
Better Git It in Your Soul (Part 2 of 2) — 1 ▶
Big Alice — 2 ▶
Boogie Stop Shuffle — 8 ▶
Celia — 1 ▶
Cryin' Blues — 1 ▶
Devil Blues — 3 ▶
Dizzy Moods — 1 ▶
Don't Be Afraid, The Clown's Afraid Too — 2 ▶
Eat That Chicken — 6 ▶
Fables of Faubus — 5 ▶
Flamingo — 1 ▶
Freedom — 1 ▶
Freedom (Part I) — 1 ▶
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat — 21 ▶
Group Dancers — 1 ▶
Gunslinging Bird — 1 ▶
Haitian Fight Song — 6 ▶
Haitian Fight Song (excerpt) — 1 ▶
Hobo Ho — 1 ▶
Hog Callin' Blues — 1 ▶
II B.S. — 3 ▶
II B.S. (Edit) — 1 ▶
II BS — 1 ▶
Jelly Roll — 1 ▶
Moanin' — 10 ▶
Mood Indigo — 2 ▶
Moves — 1 ▶
Myself When I Am Real — 2 ▶
Myself When I'm Real — 2 ▶
Nostalgia in Times Square — 4 ▶
Orange Was the Colour of Her Dress — 1 ▶
Pedal Point Blues — 1 ▶
Pussy Cat Dues — 1 ▶
Roland Kirk's Message — 1 ▶
Scenes in the City — 1 ▶
Self-Portrait in Three Colors — 3 ▶
Self-Portrait in Three Colours — 1 ▶
Solo Dancer — 1 ▶
Solo Dancer (Stop! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!) — 1 ▶
Song with Orange — 1 ▶
Take The A Train / Exactly Like You — 1 ▶
The Man Who Never Sleeps — 1 ▶
The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers — 2 ▶
Theme for Lester Young — 8 ▶
Theme For Lester Young — 1 ▶
Theme For Lester Young (EDIT) — 1 ▶
Untitled Blues (Take 2) — 1 ▶
Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting — 5 ▶
Weird Nightmare — 1 ▶