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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.
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- Charles Mingus Collection
As a bandleader, the American jazz bassist Charles Mingus released 51 albums between 1949 and 1977; as a sideman, Mingus appeared on a total of 34 albums. Four albums of his music were released posthumously between 1979 and 1990.
- Early Years
- The Golden Years
- Large Canvas Works
- Mingus Live
- Late Mingus
Born in Nogales, Arizona, in 1922, Charles Mingus was raised in Los Angeles and his early interest in music led to him playing the trombone and cello before he heeded the call of the double bass. He quickly became a bass prodigy, learning his trade in the bands of trumpeter Louis Armstrong and vibraphonists Lionel Hampton and Red Norvo before falli...
As the 50s unfolded, Charles Mingus began to blossom as a bandleader and composer. A crucial catalyst in his development were his jazz workshops, where he honed his material and schooled musicians in his methodology, which involved learning his music by ear rather than reading it from notated charts. In 1956, Mingus unleashed his first bonafide mas...
Charles Mingus never recorded many duo, trio, or even quartet albums; he seemed to prefer the timbral possibilities of writing for groups of five musicians or more. One of his most ambitious works for a large ensemble was the 1960 LP, Pre-Bird, whose title alluded to the fact that Mingus wrote its compositions before the musical innovations of bebo...
One of the LPs that announced Charles Mingus as a jazz pathfinder was 1956’s live offering, Mingus At The Bohemia, which featured the bassist’s regular working quintet of the time. It included two classic Mingus tunes; the swinging “Jump Monk,” defined by lively contrapuntal interplay, and the statelier, more eloquent “Work Song,” a song steeped in...
Mingus never lost his penchant for stirring up controversy, even though his music became slicker and began losing its edge in the 1970s. “Remember Rockefeller At Attica,” and “Free Cell Block F, ‘Tis Nazi USA,” both recorded in 1974, were protest songs; while their messages represented Mingus at his provocative best, the music by contrast, was less...
- Charles Waring
The music of jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, who was born 100 years ago and died in 1979, continues to challenge musicians.
CHARLES MINGUS is a hard bop, third stream, progressive big band, jazz related soundtracks post bop music artist.
Mar 1, 2002 · 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. A composer often compared to Duke Ellington, Mingus is known for protest songs such as “Faubus Fables,” “Haitian Fight Song,” and “Meditations on a Pair of Wire Cutters”; for ...
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Jul 26, 2021 · His music was gloriously, defiantly, completely his own, wrought unaided out of his (not so) private hell, a one-off mix of Ellington, Charlie Parker, gospel, the blues, New Orleans polyphony and fast small-band swing music. Mingus excelled at composing for both small and mid-sized ensembles, and like Ellington, he wrote and arranged with ...
