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- Charles Mingus was born in Nogales, Arizona. His father, Charles Mingus Sr., was a sergeant in the U.S. Army. Mingus Jr. was largely raised in the Watts area of Los Angeles.
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Early life and career. Charles Mingus was born in Nogales, Arizona. His father, Charles Mingus Sr., was a sergeant in the U.S. Army. [4] Mingus Jr. was largely raised in the Watts area of Los Angeles. Mingus's ethnic background was complex.
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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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Born on a military base in Nogales, Arizona in 1922 and raised in Watts, California, his earliest musical influences came from the church-- choir and group singing-- and from "hearing Duke Ellington over the radio when [he] was eight years old."
- Ellington’s Influence
- Established His Own Trademarks
- Prototype For The 1960s
- “Chill of Death”
- Selected Discography
- Sources
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...
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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
Mingus was born in Nogales, Arizona, but was raised largely in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California. His mother's paternal heritage was Chinese, while historical records indicate that his father was the illegitimate offspring of a mulatto farmhand and his employer's white granddaughter.
Jul 17, 2007 · Mingus was born in 1922 in Nogales, Arizona, where his father was stationed as a U.S. Army sergeant. His mother died shortly after he was born. He was raised in Watts, California.
Sep 22, 2024 · Born on a military base in Nogales, Arizona in 1922 and raised in Watts, California, his earliest musical influences came from the church— choir and group singing— and from “hearing Duke Ellington over the radio when [he] was eight years old...
