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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 ...
a.k.a. Mingus Revisited: Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus: Candid, 1960 October 20, 1960 Newport Rebels: Candid, 1961 November 11, 1960 Jazz Artists Guild led by Charles Mingus and Max Roach Mingus: Candid, 1961 November 11, 1960 Mysterious Blues: Candid, 1990 November 11, 1960 Reincarnation Of A Love Bird: Candid, 1988 November 11, 1960 ...
Mingus worked on his autobiography for more than two decades. [1] One newspaper indicated in October 1961 that the book "is due out in a couple of weeks". [2] The following year, The New York Times reported that author Louis Lomax was collaborating with Mingus in the writing and editing of "an eight-year-old, portly, angry manuscript of 1,500 pages", and that publishers in France and Japan had ...
Charles Mingus narrates pieces of his own story. Born from a half-black/half-Swedish father and a half-black/half-Chinese mother (later having a half-black/half-Indian step-mother), Mingus tried to be all types of races but found he was a misfit that didn't belong anywhere; so he says he's just a negro.
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is a studio album by Charles Mingus.It was recorded on January 20, 1963, and released in July of that year by Impulse!Records.The album comprises a single continuous composition—partially written as a ballet—divided into four tracks and six movements. [1]
Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968 is a 1968 American documentary film directed by Thomas Reichman (1944-1975) that follows the later life of jazz musician Charles Mingus and his five-year-old daughter in 1966, as they are being evicted from his New York apartment for not paying the rent. Reichman talks with Mingus in a very personal setting as the ...
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus is a studio album by the American jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus which was released on January 9, 1964. [ 1 ] Background
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 ...