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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. 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. 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.

   • Location: Music Division, Library of Congress

   • Source: Charles Mingus Collection

5. jazzprofiles.blogspot.com › 2018 › 10Ted Gioia on Charles Mingus - "The History of Jazz" - Blogger

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   Oct 26, 2018 · The early 1960s found Mingus standing on the outside of the free jazz clique, staring at it with a mixture of curiosity, envy, and disdain. Mingus’s roots in the jazz tradition and his impulses as a composer prevented him from fully accepting atonality and open structures, yet his fondness for new sounds motivated him to find some common ...

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

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   Jan 21, 2022 · Many jobbing jazz bands fear Mingus – only Goodbye Pork Pie Hat has been adopted as a common standard. Although compositionally he has often been compared to Duke Ellington, Mingus was never concerned with becoming a fixture of the Great American Songbook.

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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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   What type of music did Mingus make?

   • Mingus's work ranged from advanced bebop and avant-garde jazz with small and midsize ensembles to pioneering the post-bop style on seminal recordings like Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) and Mingus Ah Um (1959) and progressive big band experiments such as The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963).

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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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   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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   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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   Why is Mingus called the Angry Man of jazz?

   • Mingus is an imposing figure in jazz music, literally and figuratively. His short temper on stage, with the band and the audience, earned him the nickname ‘the angry man of jazz’. 3.8 million people in the UK live in extreme poverty. Turn your anger into action – become a Big Issue member and give us the power to take poverty to zero.

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8. www.albionbeatnik.co.uk › 2015/12/22 › anAn Introduction to Charles Mingus, the Angry Man of Jazz

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   Dec 22, 2015 · He combined New Orleans jazz, blues and gospel in a bebop setting, and at the same time prepared the way for Miles Davis’s modal work (with his use of pedal points and ostinati patterns) and free jazz (with his rhythmic and ensemble devices).