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Mingus's vision, now known as Epitaph, was finally realized by conductor Gunther Schuller in a concert in 1989, a decade after Mingus died. Outside of music, Mingus published a mail-order how-to guide in 1954 called The Charles Mingus CAT-alog for Toilet Training Your Cat. The guide explained in detail how to get a cat to use a human toilet.
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- Charles Mingus Collection
Jan 9, 1979 · Charles Mingus, one of the leading Jazz bass players, bandleaders and composers of the last 25 years, died Friday of a heart attack in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Oct 18, 2024 · Charles Mingus (born April 22, 1922, Nogales, Arizona, U.S.—died January 5, 1979, Cuernavaca, Mexico) was an American jazz composer, bassist, bandleader, and pianist whose work, integrating loosely composed passages with improvised solos, both shaped and transcended jazz trends of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. Mingus studied music as a child ...
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Jan 5, 2021 · “Charles Mingus, a musical mystic, died in Mexico, January 5, 1979, at the age of 56. He was cremated the next day. That same day 56 sperm whales beached themselves on the Mexican coastline and were removed by fire.
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Charles Mingus, 56, one of the first jazz musicians to use the bass as a solo instrument and a major modern jazz composer, died Friday in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Jan 8, 1979 · Charles Mingus, 56, the bassist, composer and a renowned figure in jazz for a quarter century, died Friday in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He had been suffering since 1977 from a degenerative muscular ...
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Apr 22, 2022 · WHITEHEAD: Charles Mingus died of neurodegenerative disease in 1979 at age 56. His music has been played often since then, much but not all a credit to his widow Sue Mingus, who assembled...
