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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 ...

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3. academic.oup.com › jah › articleMyself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus

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   Mar 1, 2002 · This biography leaves no doubt that Charles Mingus was a major figure in the history of jazz and American music. He was a bassist without peer, a seminal influence on contemporary musicians, and the leader of a number of legendary jazz workshops, combos, and big bands.

   • Author: Gene Santoro

   • Publish Year: 2000

4. soundstudiesblog.com › 2019/09/23 › mingus-ah-umMingus Ah Um (1959) and An Ethics of Care in Jazz

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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.

5. 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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   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.

7. www.bigissue.com › culture › musicCharles Mingus: The angry man of jazz - Big Issue

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   Jan 21, 2022 · Charles Mingus: The angry man of jazz. Volatile, complicated and prone to exaggeration, Charles Mingus was also a brilliant innovator and skilled performer, composing works that are easy to listen to but much trickier to play. by: Deb Grant. 21 Jan 2022. Charles Mingus performs at Newport Jazz Festival.

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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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   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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   Why did Mingus create music?

   • Mingus was always true to his ever-changing moods: he wanted to create music that, in his words, was “as varied as my feelings are, or the world is.” For sheer range of expression, his work has few equals in postwar American music: furious and tender, joyous and melancholy, grave and mischievous, ecstatic and introspective.

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   What does it mean to listen to Mingus?

   • To listen to Mingus is to hear the black American musical tradition talking to itself. Jazz had always been an art of quotation and allusion, a palimpsest of commentaries on other musicians’ interpretations of the same material.

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   Who is Charles Mingus?

   • Charles Mingus performs at Newport Jazz Festival. Image: Cary Wolinsky/The Boston Globe via Getty Images From a young age, Charles Mingus had designs on being a classical musician. He grew up in Watts, LA, in a household that celebrated Ravel and Bach along with church music.

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   Did Mingus want to be a slave to bebop?

   • Mingus was second to no one in his admiration of Parker, who, as he wrote later, achieved “a primitive, mystic, supra-mind communication that I’d only heard in the late Beethoven quartets, and, even more, in Stravinsky.” But Mingus didn’t want to be a slave to bebop. He wanted to be known as a composer, not as a bass-slapping jazz man.

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

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   At eight years old, Mingus heard the melodic voice of Duke Ellington over the radio, and soon developed a serious passion for jazz music. 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.