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

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   Allegedly nicknamed the "Sweatshop," Mingus's group had a paradoxically disciplinary quality: while Mingus laid the. basis for free jazz (increasing the musical freedoms of his Workshoppers through modal forms), he constrained his fellow musicians through the Workshop's febrile instruction.

2. www.carnegiehall.org › Explore › ArticlesSix Jazz Classics and the Fight for Civil Rights - Carnegie Hall

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   Apr 26, 2021 · The incident inspired composer-bassist Charles Mingus to write 1959’s “Fables of Faubus” for his Mingus Ah Um album. Mingus was a genius of biting sarcasm, and his loping tune features his cutting call-and-response with drummer Dannie Richmond.

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3. www.harmony4all.org › post › jazz-s-vanguard-ofJazz's Vanguard of Activism: the Enduring Legacy of Charles ...

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   Jun 17, 2024 · Beyond his virtuosity as a bassist and composer, Mingus left an indelible mark on the world of jazz through his uncompromising activism, pushing boundaries not only in music but also in the realm of civil rights and social justice.

4. jazz.fm › charles-mingus-champions-an-explicitlyBehind Charles Mingus’s punchy protest song ... - JAZZ.FM91

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   As a teenager, Mingus began to study “double bass and composition in a formal way,” while simultaneously absorbing first hand a vernacular for jazz through some of the earlier greats. In the 1940s, Mingus began touring with artists such as Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton and Kid Ory.

5. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 1971/05/29Charles Mingus at Peace - The New Yorker

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   May 22, 1971 · Mingus’s relationship with jazz critics has been surprisingly amiable, and the lumps landed on them in the book are pretty funny. A party is given for Mingus when he first arrives in New York...

6. www.thenation.com › article › archiveAn Argument With Instruments: On Charles Mingus - The Nation

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   Sep 17, 2013 · 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 ...

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   What is Mingus' relationship with jazz critics like?

   • Mingus’s relationship with jazz critics has been surprisingly amiable, and the lumps landed on them in the book are pretty funny. A party is given for Mingus when he first arrives in New York from the West Coast, around 1950.

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   What was Mingus music like?

   • As Johnson tells John Goodman in Mingus Speaks, a book of interviews with Mingus and friends conducted in the early 1970s, Mingus’s music was a lot like his soup: a “huge cauldron of sounds” that was “always in a state of becoming something.” By John F. Goodman. His World as Composed by Mingus. By Charles Mingus. Mosaic Records. 7 CDs. $119.

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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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   Why did Charles Mingus write Fables of Faubus?

   • The incident inspired composer-bassist Charles Mingus to write 1959’s “Fables of Faubus” for his Mingus Ah Um album. Mingus was a genius of biting sarcasm, and his loping tune features his cutting call-and-response with drummer Dannie Richmond. Mingus asks, “Name me someone who’s ridiculous, Dannie,” to which Richmond shouts, “Governor Faubus!”

   Six Jazz Classics and the Fight for Civil Rights - Carnegie Hall

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   What is Charles Mingus presenting?

   • His 1960 session Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus features a pianoless quartet that ventured even further from Mingus’s melodies than Coleman did from his, as if Mingus were bent on proving that he was more modern than the avant-garde.

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   Did Mingus leave his pieces alone?

   • Mingus rarely left his pieces alone when he took them on the road with his Jazz Workshop, as he began calling his bands in the mid-1950s.

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8. blankonblank.org › 2015 › 05How Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement Came Together in the 1960s

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   Evolving in parallel and informed by similar cultural and historical touchstones, the civil rights and avant garde jazz movements both informed and influenced each other. Here’s the story of how John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Nina Simone and some jazz pioneers made their voices heard during the heat of the civil rights movement