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Jan 21, 2022 · The bandstand was his laboratory. He was constantly tweaking and appraising, trying to make the music sound as though it lived and breathed of its own accord. Even during the bebop era, one of the most innovative periods in jazz, next to his pioneering peers like Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and Charlie Parker, Mingus obliterated convention.
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Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author. A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history, [1] with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz greats such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Max Roach ...
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Oct 18, 2024 · Charles Mingus (born April 22, 1922, Nogales, Arizona, U.S.—died January 5, 1979, Cuernavaca, Mexico) was an American jazz composer, bassist, bandleader, and pianist whose work, integrating loosely composed passages with improvised solos, both shaped and transcended jazz trends of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. Mingus studied music as a child ...
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Dec 22, 2015 · Mingus’ early influence was the uninhibited music of his local Holiness Church which he attended as a boy with his stepmother: there he heard blues drenched vocal improvisations, unrestrained vibrato, moaning, call and responses. Later the music of Duke Ellington was to have a profound influence, particularly in compositional techniques.
Jun 7, 2021 · Charles Mingus: A Guide to His Life and Music. Written by MasterClass. Last updated: Jun 7, 2021 • 4 min read. Bandleader Charles Mingus was a notable jazz musician of the mid-twentieth century. He helped pioneer the concept of collective improvisation. Explore.
Mingus and band on a Belgian TV show in 1964 (colorized) “Mingus—the man and the music—was larger than life, unpredictable, paranoid, tender, angry, romantic, declamatory, and violent,” music historian Grover Sales wrote in Jazz: America’s Classical Music. “Many of his best works sprang from passions of the moment; the death of ...
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Apr 21, 2022 · April 21, 2022. Charles Mingus was everything all at once: jazz, folk, dance, theater, label owner, brave Black man. In an era where the wrong opinions could get him killed or, at the very least ...
