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Jun 15, 2021 · 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 ...
Mar 30, 2022 · To commemorate what would have been the 100th birthday (April 22, 2022) of iconic jazz composer/bandleader/bassist Charles Mingus (1922-2022), The Django is hosting special Mingus concerts including this one featuring Mingus Big Band musical director/member Conrad Herwig.
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.
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- Charles Mingus Collection
Saxophonist John Handy said that "Mingus was in the way so much, you couldn't play for it. The man'd stop your solos-he was totally tyrannical."22 Mingus's Workshop was a far cry from the ideal of "negative liberty": his brand of free jazz set severe limits on its horizon of freedom.
Jun 7, 2021 · Bandleader Charles Mingus was a notable jazz musician of the mid-twentieth century. He helped pioneer the concept of collective improvisation.
Jan 28, 2021 · Charles Mingus was an American Jazz musician whose compositions and arrangements crossed numerous boundaries from Swing to Boogie Woogie, from Bebop to Classical and the Avant Garde. Like Duke Ellington, Mingus was an innovator in the long form of jazz composition.
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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.
