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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. 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.

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. www.npr.org › 2011/06/20 › 4540134Charles Mingus: 'Pithecanthropus Erectus' - NPR

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   Aug 1, 2001 · Pithecanthropus Erectus was one of the precursors of the 1960s free jazz movement, as its title track is one of the first examples of musicians freely interpreting systems of notes.

5. www.npr.org › 2023/07/10 › 1185052098Mingus' 'Changes' is a mixed bag: Some brilliant music, then ...

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   Jul 10, 2023 · Tenor saxophonist George Adams blew howling free jazz solos, gut bucket blues and sanctified gospel and had a way with a rapturous ballad like Mingus' bow to the master called "Duke Ellington's...

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6. 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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   Was Charles Mingus a good bassist?

   • SPELLMAN: And, I'm A.B. Spellman Criticized for his violent temper on and off stage, Charles Mingus nonetheless became one of the greatest bassists in jazz history. Pithecanthropus Erectus was one of the precursors of the 1960s free jazz movement, as its title track is one of the first examples of musicians freely interpreting systems of notes.

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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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   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.

   An Argument With Instruments: On Charles Mingus | The Nation

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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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   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 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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   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...