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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. english.elpais.com › culture › 2023/12/09Charles Mingus: 100 years of jazz’s great volcano | Culture ...

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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...

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.nytimes.com › 2022/04/21 › artsThe Multifaceted Mingus - The New York Times

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   Apr 21, 2022 · What follow are edited excerpts from conversations with a wide range of jazz musicians who are active today, including one who played with Mingus and many who carry his torch.

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Charles_MingusCharles Mingus - Wikipedia

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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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   Did Mingus want free jazz?

   • In “ Mingus Speaks ,” a book of interviews from 1972 to 1974 by John F. Goodman, Mingus mocks the idea of “free” jazz and says that he wanted to “get Clark Terry, Jascha Heifetz, Duke Ellington, uhh, Pablo Casals, Max Roach, Buddy Collette, and Dizzy Gillespie—and we’ll make you an atonal, avant-garde record that will cut everybody.”

   Jazz Review: A Crucial Charles Mingus Concert Finally Gets Its Due

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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.

   Charles Mingus: 100 years of jazz’s great volcano

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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.

   An Argument With Instruments: On Charles Mingus | The Nation

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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.

   Charles Mingus: 100 years of jazz’s great volcano

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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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   Who plays Charles Mingus music?

   • Charles Mingus's music is currently being performed and reinterpreted by the Mingus Big Band, which in October 2008 began playing every Monday at Jazz Standard in New York City, and often tours the rest of the U.S. and Europe.

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8. www.newyorker.com › culture › the-front-rowJazz Review: A Crucial Charles Mingus Concert Finally Gets ...

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   Jun 15, 2021 · Richard Brody reviews “Mingus at Carnegie Hall,” the newly released two-CD set of the entirety of the 1974 jazz concert by the bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus.