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After Mingus's death, the score to Epitaph was rediscovered by Andrew Homzy, director of the jazz program at Concordia University, Montreal.He had been invited by Sue Mingus to catalogue a trunkful of Mingus's handwritten charts and in the process had discovered a vast assortment of orchestral pages written by Mingus with measures numbered consecutively well into the thousands.
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author.A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history, [1] with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz greats such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Max Roach ...
Sessions directed by Charles Mingus Something Like a Bird: Atlantic, 1980 January 23, 1978 Studio Sessions directed by Charles Mingus Mingus: Asylum, 1979 1978 Studio Joni Mitchell album co-written with Charles Mingus Epitaph: Columbia, 1989 June 3, 1989 Studio Unpublished work written between 1940 and 1962
The Complete Town Hall Concert is a live album by the American jazz musician Charles Mingus released on Blue Note label 1994. [1] It was recorded at the Town Hall in New York City in 1962. Some tracks were previously released on the United Artists label in 1962 as Town Hall Concert .
Pages in category "Compositions by Charles Mingus" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Epitaph (Charles Mingus composition) F. Fables of ...
The Great Concert of Charles Mingus is a live album by the jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, recorded at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France, on April 19, 1964. It was originally released as a triple album in 1971 on the French America label.
He played with icons such as Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, and Booker Little. In his short life of only 36 years, jazz musician and band leader Eric Dolphy made quite a mark on the world of jazz ...
The quartet of Mingus, multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy, trumpeter Ted Curson, and drummer Dannie Richmond constituted Mingus' core working band at the time, and had been performing the material on this album for weeks at The Showplace in New York. To recreate this atmosphere, Mingus introduces the songs as if he were speaking to the audience ...