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Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on Columbia Records in May 1960. It is a companion album to his 1959 record Mingus Ah Um, and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The title alludes to Mingus's ancestry, which was partially Chinese.
Mingus Dynasty ist ein Jazzalbum von Charles Mingus, das 1959 aufgenommen und veröffentlicht wurde. Der Titel des Albums beruht auf einem Wortspiel mit der Ming-Dynastie. Es ist das erste Album in den 1950er Jahren, auf dem Mingus seine Kompositionen teilweise in einem größeren Band-Format einspielte.
Charles Mingus (* 22. April 1922 in Nogales, Arizona; † 5. Januar 1979 in Cuernavaca, Mexiko) war ein US-amerikanischer Jazz - Kontrabassist sowie Bandleader. Mingus gehört zu den bedeutendsten Bassisten und Komponisten des modernen Jazz.
Mingus Dynasty was the first band Sue Mingus organized after Charles Mingus’ death in 1979, collaborating with his own sidemen to honor his life and work. Although Mingus was a iconic and trailblazing bassist, he always said he was first and foremost a composer, and left behind over 300 compositions that deserved to be played, so a band ...
www .charlesmingus .com. 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 ...
Sue Mingus has founded three working repertory bands called the Mingus Dynasty, Mingus Orchestra, and the Mingus Big Band, which continue to perform his music. Biographies of Charles Mingus include Mingus by Brian Priestley, Mingus/Mingus by Janet Coleman and Al Young, Myself When I Am Real by Gene Santoro, and Tonight at Noon , a memoir by Sue ...
22. Apr. 2022 · Since his death in 1979, Mingus' spirit and legacy have been cherished in concert, most notably by the Mingus Big Band and Mingus Dynasty ensembles that regularly feature a who's-who of New...
