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- An iconoclastic visionary, jazz bassist, composer, and pianist Charles Mingus established a movement within modern jazz that marked a departure from bebop and helped chart the course of avant-garde jazz.
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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
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.
- Deb Grant
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 ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dec 22, 2015 · 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).
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 through complex and often unreliable narration.
Jun 17, 2024 · Though Charles Mingus left us in 1979, his legacy continues to resonate in contemporary jazz and beyond. His pioneering fusion of styles, his audacious compositions, and his unflinching stance against racial injustice continue to inspire musicians and activists alike.
While his immersion in classical music, particularly Ravel and Bach, were important Mingus fully absorbed the influence of New Orleans jazz and classic big bands led by such as Duke Ellington, and had his first professional gig with the Duke’s esteemed clarinetist Barney Bigard before playing with a dizzying array of legendary figures, from ...
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