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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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Mingus's work ranged from advanced bebop and avant-garde jazz with small and midsize ensembles to pioneering the post-bop style on seminal recordings like Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) and Mingus Ah Um (1959) and progressive big band experiments such as The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963).
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Oct 18, 2024 · Charles Mingus, American jazz composer, bassist, bandleader, and pianist whose work integrated loosely composed passages with improvised solos.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 7, 2021 · Bandleader Charles Mingus was a notable jazz musician of the mid-twentieth century. He helped pioneer the concept of collective improvisation.
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In grade school Mingus played a trombone. Upon the advice of his friend and trombonist, Britt Woodman, he switched to cello and earned a seat in the Los Angeles Junior Philharmonic. Whether prompted by the advice of his friend Buddy Collette or a decision influenced by the requirements of joining the school band, Mingus took up the double bass, an ...
Mingus’s growing reputation as a bassist led to a stint with Lionel Hampton’s band in 1947. In November of the same year, Hampton recorded the 25-year old bassist’s number “Mingus Fingus.” Noted “cool jazz” horn player and conductor Gunther Schuller expressed some criticism of the number’s form in his work The Swing Era, but he also praised it as a...
On May 15,1953 Mingus and Roach, along with Charlie Parker and pianist Bud Powell, appeared at Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada. Mingus recorded the performance from the bandstand and, after re-dubbing many of his bass parts, released it as the Debut album Jazz at Massey Hall. During the same year, Mingus and Roach organized a “Jazz Workshop” concert...
By 1970 Mingus began to appear at club and festival dates. That same year, Knopf published his autobiographical work, Beneath the Underdog. Written in a surreal prose style and paying little attention to chronology, the book, while it addressed the issue of race, overlooked many important discussions of music in favor of emphasizing the author’s se...
Minor Intrusions, Bethlehem, 1954. Charles Mingus, Prestige, 1955. Pithecanthropus Erectus, Atlantic, 1956. Passions of a Man, Atlantic, 1956. East Coasting, Bethlehem, 1957. The Clown, Atlantic, 1957. Tijuana Moods, RCA, 1957. Dynasty;, Columbia, 1959. Ah Um, Columbia, 1959. Blues and Roots, Atlantic, 1960. Mingus Revisited, Polygram, 1960. Mingus...
Books
Baillett, Whitney, American Musicians II: Seventy-One Portraits in Jazz, Oxford UniversityPress, 1996. Davis, Miles with Quincy Troupe, Miles: The Autobiography, Simon & Schuster, 1990. Feather, Leonard, The Encyclopedia of Jazz, Horizon Press, 1960. Gioia, Ted, West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz In California 1945-1960, Oxford UniversityPress, 1992. Hentoff, Nat, Jazz Is, Limelight Editions, 1984. Lyons, Len, The Great Jazz Pianists: Speaking of Their Lives and Music, Da Capo, 1983. Perry, David,...
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Additional information for this profile was obtained from liner notes to the following albums:Mingus Revisited, Polygram, 1960, and Changes One, Atlantic, 1975. —John Cohassey
Jan 21, 2022 · In 1952 he moved to New York City, just as the likes of Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins were making waves and the whole scene was heating up. Mingus is an imposing figure in jazz music, literally and figuratively. His short temper on stage, with the band and the audience, earned him the nickname ‘the angry man of jazz’.
- Deb Grant
Mingus was an accomplished pianist as well as bassist, and his love of the two instruments, especially the harmonic richness of the former, was vital in his artistic development. Furthermore, he was able to nurture considerable talent in contexts such as the Jazz Composers Workshop where players yielded much spontaneous collective dynamism.
Apr 14, 2023 · Mingus often challenged the racial politics of jazz culture and the music industry, as well as critiquing the absurdity of segregation and segregationists like Governor Orval Faubus. He understood himself as a black man in a white world.
