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A video exploring the impact of Charles Mingus on civil rights through his jazz music, presented by Nick Rossi.
- 7 min
- 1880
- Nick Rossi
Feb 18, 2022 · Charles Mingus (1922-1979), bassist and composer, was not only one of the greatest jazz musicians and jazz ensemble leaders of all time, but also one of the most important American...
- 135 min
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- UCI Illuminations
A profound composer and powerful bassist, Mingus' personal story is at times disturbing, and his reputation as the 'angry man of jazz' was well earned, but his mark on the history of jazz is ...
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- Chase Sanborn
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 ...
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 ...
Sep 23, 2019 · His purported critique of neo-jazz movements of the late 1950s and early 1960s, like the free jazz (“The New Thing”)/avant-garde jazz movement, narratively put him at odds with emerging jazz artists like Ornette Coleman and Miles Davis.
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Mar 30, 2022 · After an iconic set in which he played his famous medley of the Duke’s tunes at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1695, Mr Mingus said in homage: “Thank you, but I owe it all to Duke Ellington… I should say… I stole it from him…”
