Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on Columbia Records in May 1960.

[1][2][3] It is a companion album to his 1959 record Mingus Ah Um, and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

The title alludes to Mingus's ancestry, which was partially Chinese.

[7] Tracks one, three, four, and five were released in their unedited form in 1979 on vinyl and in 1999 on CD.

In 2009 Sony's Legacy Recordings released a special, two-disc 50th anniversary edition of Mingus's seminal 1959 album Mingus Ah Um that also includes Mingus Dynasty in its entirety on the second disc.