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The famous 1959 Charles Mingus albums

September 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Jazz’s “annus mirabilis” Mingus recorded four albums in this annus mirabilis of jazz: Mingus in Wonderland, a live album recorded on 16 January at Nonagon Art Gallery in New York City; Blues and Roots recorded on 4 February with Nesuhi Ertegun again doing the producing; and the two Teo Macero-produced albums Mingus Ah Um recorded […]

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Mingus magnificus Ah Um

September 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

A unique and brave musician “This is the uniqueness of this man: he jolts with the unexpected and the new. He has something to say and he will use every resource to interpret his messages.” – Dr Edmund Pollock, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist. (From the liner notes to the album The Black Saint and the Sinner […]

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From Antibes to a New York Penthouse with Mingus

September 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The 1960 albums The year 1960 saw Mingus record five great albums, three released in 1960, one in 1961 and one in 1980. The 1961 release was the result of his collaboration with conductor and musicologist Gunther Schuller and entitled Pre-Bird Mingus. The album released in 1980 was the live set at the Antibes Jazz […]

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Tijuana to ‘Frisco – more Mingus moods

September 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The albums This article will look at Charles Mingus albums released in 1962, 1963 and 1964. The first of them was actually recorded in 1957, with Danny Richmond on drums for the first, and most definitely not the last, time with Mingus. This was the ever-popular Tijuana Moods , which Mingus wrote, “was written in […]

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Mingus gets down to the roots of the matter

September 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The album On 4 February 1959 bassist Charles Mingus took a group of top class jazz musicians into the Atlantic Records studio to record a “barrage of soul music: churchy, blues, swinging, earthy” to quote his own words, and the result is the magnificent Blues and Roots, an album which gets me shouting and moaning […]

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Jazz bassist Charles Mingus goes from Massey Hall to Pithecanthropus

August 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Leadership development The three albums discussed in this article represent bassist Charles Mingus growing in stature as bass player, composer and band leader. On the first album he becomes leader almost by default as the two who were meant to lead the outfit which has come to be known as “The Quintet”, Charlie Parker and […]

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Introducing a Charles Mingus decade – the flowering of a jazz genius

August 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The truth of what I am “I’m going to keep on getting through and finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That’s the one place I can be free.” – Mingus in conversation with Nat Hentoff (A Musician Beyond Category – From Gadfly April 1999)“In my music, I’m trying to play […]

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