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Allegedly nicknamed the "Sweatshop," Mingus's group had a paradoxically disciplinary quality: while Mingus laid the. basis for free jazz (increasing the musical freedoms of his Workshoppers through modal forms), he constrained his fellow musicians through the Workshop's febrile instruction.
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
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 ...
Apr 14, 2023 · Through efforts such as his Debut record label and the Jazz Composers Workshop, Mingus sought ways to take control of his music and to make space for other musicians who deserved the chance to be heard, showing how much jazz is a collective and individual effort.
Dec 22, 2015 · Mingus was a Janus figure. 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).
Mingus had strong feelings about free jazz. He was always able to tell when someone was playing genuinely, and when they were pretending at improvisation.
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Mar 30, 2022 · After an iconic set in which he played his famous medley of the Duke’s tunes at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1695, Mr Mingus said in homage: “Thank you, but I owe it all to Duke Ellington… I should say… I stole it from him…”
