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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 ...
- Pithecanthropus Erectus. From the album Pithecanthropus Erectus – Rec: 1956. Sounding as radical today as at the time of release, this Charles Mingus song is a tone poem that he said depicted the rise and fall of man.
- Haitian Fight Song. From the album The Clown – Rec: 1957. One of the most vital elements of Mingus’s writing is it’s deep connection to the blues and early jazz, whilst anticipating some of the developments of the free jazz of the 1960s.
- Ysabel’s Table Dance. From the album Tijuana Moods – Rec: 1957. Recorded just months after The Clown but not released until 1962, the album Tijuana Moods hints at some of the musical ideas that Mingus would follow up a few years later with his epic The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady (1963).
- Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting. From the album Blues & Roots – Rec: 1959. The Charles Mingus album Blues & Roots features a larger band than usual (even for him!)
Charles Mingus was quite critical of avant-garde jazz musicians of the mid-1960s. On one of his stage announcements in the new Mosaic set “ The Jazz Workshop Concerts ”, he chides the free players for claiming that “they closed the book on [bebop] when most of them still can’t play Bird ”.
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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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...
Apr 14, 2023 · Mingus was among a small number of jazz autobiographers whose approach to writing about the jazz life focused less on the minutiae of life on the road, than they did on exploring the experience of race, gender, and music.
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Apr 22, 2024 · Charles Mingus’s best pieces are the work of one of jazz's greatest composers who gave the genre some of its most memorable tunes.
