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1. • • Mingus, who ended up tired and disillusioned with the music business, and who was not an admirer of free jazz, and was forever fearless and tirelessly independent.
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   What type of music did Mingus make?

   • Mingus's work ranged from advanced bebop and avant-garde jazz with small and midsize ensembles to pioneering the post-bop style on seminal recordings like Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) and Mingus Ah Um (1959) and progressive big band experiments such as The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963).

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   Did Charles Mingus play a double bass?

   • Charles Mingus (1922-1979) plays the double bass at a 1977 concert in Michigan. Steve Kagan (The Chronicle Colle The grandiose spectacle of a volcano of emotions. Listening to the music of Charles Mingus, one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, is like contemplating a volcano in all its majesty.

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   Was Mingus a conservative?

   • Mingus’s reverence for the tradition—and his mockery of free jazz musicians as unschooled dilettantes—made it easy to mistake him for a conservative: a “black Stan Kenton,” in the dismissive phrase of Amiri Baraka (then LeRoi Jones), the high priest of black nationalist jazz critics.

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   Who plays Mingus music?

   • Mingus's compositions continue to be played by contemporary musicians ranging from the repertory bands Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty, and Mingus Orchestra to high-school students who play the charts and compete in the Charles Mingus High School Competition.

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   Who was Mingus & what did he do?

   • Mingus, who ended up tired and disillusioned with the music business, and who was not an admirer of free jazz, and was forever fearless and tirelessly independent. The artist could soothe and seduce then, moments later, shake you up and slap you around. His was an unpredictable rhythm.

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   What does it mean to listen to Mingus?

   • To listen to Mingus is to hear the black American musical tradition talking to itself. Jazz had always been an art of quotation and allusion, a palimpsest of commentaries on other musicians’ interpretations of the same material.

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3. www.jstor.org › stable › 30041899Outrageous Freedom: Charles Mingus and the Invention of the ...

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   Where Did the "Free" in Free Jazz Come From? THE MUSIC WAS ARGUABLY BORN ON 30 JANUARY 1956, A WELL-NIGH APOCALYPTIC moment when jazz composer Charles Mingus set in motion a novel but durable experiment in musical orchestration and simultaneously un-veiled a menacing critique of modernist authority. Mingus had as-sembled his Jazz Workshop in ...

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   His compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop, drawing heavily from black gospel music and blues, while sometimes containing elements of third stream, free jazz, and classical music. He once cited Duke Ellington and church as his main influences.

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   Charles Mingus was quite critical of avant-garde jazz musicians of the mid-1960s. On one of his stage announcements in the new Mosaic set “ The Jazz Workshop Concerts ”, he chides the free players for claiming that “they closed the book on [bebop] when most of them still can’t play Bird ”.

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   Dec 22, 2015 · Mingus was a Janus figure. He combined New Orleans jazz, blues and gospel in a bebop setting, and at the same time prepared the way for Miles Davis’s modal work (with his use of pedal points and ostinati patterns) and free jazz (with his rhythmic and ensemble devices).

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   Mar 1, 2002 · This biography leaves no doubt that Charles Mingus was a major figure in the history of jazz and American music. He was a bassist without peer, a seminal influence on contemporary musicians, and the leader of a number of legendary jazz workshops, combos, and big bands.

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    Dec 9, 2023 · Mingus, who ended up tired and disillusioned with the music business, and who was not an admirer of free jazz, and was forever fearless and tirelessly independent. The artist could soothe and...