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Charles Mingus war ein US-amerikanischer Jazz-Kontrabassist sowie Bandleader. Mingus gehört zu den bedeutendsten Bassisten und Komponisten des modernen Jazz. Seine Kompositionen basierten auf dem Hard Bop, waren aber beeinflusst von Gospel, Third Stream, Free Jazz und klassischer Musik. Er nannte einmal die Kirche und Duke Ellington als ...
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 to be one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history, [1] with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz ...
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- Charles Mingus Collection
21. Apr. 2022 · April 2022 wäre der Jazzmusiker Charles Mingus 100 Jahre alt. Seine Werke und sein Leben spiegeln afroamerikanische Identität wie nur wenige andere – und sind in Zeiten von "Black Lives Matter...
22. Apr. 2024 · Charles Mingus’s best pieces are the work of one of jazz's greatest composers who gave the genre some of its most memorable tunes.
- Charles Waring
21. Apr. 2022 · Charles Mingus was everything all at once: jazz, folk, dance, theater, label owner, brave Black man. In an era where the wrong opinions could get him killed or, at the very least, exiled from the...
As a bandleader, the American jazz bassist Charles Mingus released 51 albums between 1949 and 1977; as a sideman, Mingus appeared on a total of 34 albums. Four albums of his music were released posthumously between 1979 and 1990. Between 1979 and 2015, Sue Mingus produced 19 albums based on his compositions. Discography as bandleader.
At a memorial following Mingus' death, Steve Schlesinger of the Guggenheim Foundation commented that Mingus was one of the few artists who received two grants and added: "I look forward to the day when we can transcend labels like jazz and acknowledge Charles Mingus as the major American composer that he is." The New Yorker wrote: "For sheer melodic and rhythmic and structural originality, his ...
