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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
Oct 18, 2024 · Mingus drew inspiration from Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, African American gospel music, and Mexican folk music, as well as traditional jazz and 20th-century concert music.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Mingus at The Bohemia
- Pithecanthropus Erectus
- The Clown
- Mingus Ah-Um
- Blues & Roots
- Pre – Bird
- The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady
- Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
- Changes One
- Mingus
Before becoming a bandleader, Charles Mingus toured and recorded as a sideman with many of the leading jazz musicians at the time including Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Lionel Hampton and Roy Eldridge. He also performed briefly with Duke Ellingtonbut was allegedly, due to his bad temper, one of the few musicians who got fired by the great compo...
Pithecanthropus Erectus is widely considered as Mingus’ breakthrough album. It’s the first album where he taught all his compositions by ear to the musicians instead of writing them down – an idea coming straight out of his Jazz Workshop concept, which also relies heavily on free and group improvisations. The title track Pithecanthropus Erectus ref...
The Clown is the immediate successor to Pithecanthropus Erectus. Its opening track “The Haitian Fight Song” is the first recorded blues by Mingus and serves as the initial idea to his Blues Albumin 1960. “Blue in Cee” is another heavily swinging blues in the alternating keys of C and Bb. The album also features Mingus’ famous composition “Reincarna...
Mingus Ah-Um may well be Charles Mingus’ most popular album and includes compositions which are now considered jazz classics. In 2012 the album was selected for the Grammy Hall of Fame, receiving 5-star reviews from all major magazines and the Penguin Guide to Jazz calls it “an extended tribute to ancestors”. Mingus honours many of his musical idol...
Atlantic record producer Nesuhi Ertegünsuggested to Mingus that he record an entire Blues album, since some critics had the opinion he wouldn’t swing enough and that Mingus was doing too intellectual, experimental music. He answered: “I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I’ve grown up and I like to do things other...
Later called Mingus Revisited, this record has a large personnel and features many well known soloists of the time, such as drummer Max Roach, trumpeter Clark Terry, free jazz legend Eric Dolphy, tenor player Joe Farrell, saxophonist and flautist Yusuf Lateef, trombone player Slide Hampton and pianist Paul Bley. The concept of this album, for Mingu...
“Black Saint is Charles Mingus’ masterpiece“ writes the Penguin Guide to jazz and it certainly is one of the most acclaimed jazz albums in history. On par with “Mingus Ah-Um” it is undoubtedly Mingus’ most celebrated work. Originally Mingus wanted to write a full album of ballet music, which is reflected in its titles. The tunes are all very orches...
Some of this album was recorded during the same session for Black Saint & The Sinner Lady, with Bob Hammer doing arrangements on both. For “Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus” he arranged several previously recorded Charles Mingus songs for a larger 12-piece band but, most likely due to rights issues, these compositions have been renamed on this al...
After encountering health issues in the mid 1960s, Mingus had to step back and even take a break from playing for some time. It wasn’t until 1974 that he started a new quintet with his longtime collaborator Dannie Richmond on drums, Don Pullen on piano, George Adams on tenor sax and Jack Wallrath on trumpet. They released two albums, “Changes One” ...
In the mid 1970s Charles Mingus developed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which made it impossible for him to play the double bass. Despite that, he continued composing and, in 1978, started working on a new album with singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. The four new compositions have lyrics written by Joni herself, following a meeting in Mingus’...
Just consider the fact that Charles Mingus, at various points in his career, played in bands led by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Parker—in other words, he absorbed the whole history and scope of the music in direct contact with the masters.
Apr 22, 2022 · “What is a jazz composer?”, Charles Mingus asks in the first sentence of the liner notes of his 1970 album, ‘Let my Children Hear Music’. Born 100 years ago in 1922, Mingus was an American jazz double bassist , pianist, composer, and bandleader.
- Sophia Alexandra Hall
A legendary composer, innovator, and bass virtuoso who articulated contemporary emotional currents as well as anyone in jazz. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1940s - 1970s. Born. April 22, 1922 in Nogales, AZ. Died. January 5, 1979 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
Apr 21, 2022 · Charles McPherson. Saxophonist, 82; played in Mingus’s ensembles from 1960 to 1972. Mingus to me was a complicated person, and he had a lot of moving parts, which can translate into musical ...
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