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One of the least conventional human testimonies ever filmed about a Jazzman. a poignant profile of jazz legend Charlie Mingus, whose distinctive bass stylings and radical arrangements revolutionized the jazz scene.
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Charles Mingus: More Than A Fake Book
Charles Mingus was a pioneer figure in modern jazz. Besides a virtuoso bass player who played with the top jazz musicians for four decades, he was also an accomplished pianist, bandleader and...
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Charles Mingus: A Critical Biography
It would be no exaggeration to call Charles Mingus the greatest bass player in the history of jazz; indeed, some might even regard it as understatement, for the hurricane power of his work as a composer, teacher, band leader, and iconoclast reached far beyond jazz while remaining true to its heritage in the music of Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk. In this new biography Brian Priestley has written a masterly study of Minguss dynamic career from the early years in Swing, to the...
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Pitecanthropus Erectus. Profile Of Jackie. Tonight At Noon. Haitian Fight Song. Reincarnation Of A Lovebird. Moanin'. Cryin' Blues. Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting. Ecclusiastics. Passions Of A man. Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am.
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Introduction by Richard Williams. Mingus by Mingus. From the shabby roadhouses to fabulous estates, from the psychiatric ward of Bellevue to worlds of mysticism and solitude, these are the celebrated, demonic, anguished and, above all, profoundly moving memoirs of the great jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
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Background: Recorded within an eight day span, less than three months before Eric Dolphy's death, the three concerts showcase Charles Mingus's visionary leadership and the band's incredible depth and diversity with unique performances and arrangements of classics including 'So Long Eric' and the groundbreaking 'Meditations On Integration'.
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This 1960 recording features Mingus with a quartet, a small ensemble in comparison to many of his other records. The circumstances were unique; this was to be Eric Dolphy and Ted Curson's last recording with the bassist after playing with him for many months (although this certainly wasn't to be Mingus and Dolphy's final artistic pairing). This personnel crisis, rather than resulting in a stiff and stressed performance, produced one of Mingus' finest albums. The songs here feature a fiery amalgam...
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Moanin'. Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting Part 1 (Single Version). Haitian Fight Song. Invisible Lady. Profile Of Jackie. My Jelly Roll Soul. The Incarnation Of A Lovebird. Passions Of A Woman Loved. Eat That Chicken.
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Charles Mingus - Changes One"
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Charles Mingus: Easy Piano Solos
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This is the last of four albums comprising all of Charles Mingus' work for the Candid label, and it contains one previously unsuspected (and of course, unissued) alternate take of great interest. For the rest, it gathers together material that was only released for the first time in the Mosaic boxed set of Mingus recordings, alongside tracks that were issued in 1961 although not included in Mingus albums but in the compilations The Jazz Life (CCD 79019) and Newport Rebels (CCD 79022). This session...
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Charles Mingus - In A Soulful Mood (CD)
One of the most important figures in twentieth century American music, Charles Mingus was a virtuoso bass player, accomplished pianist, bandleader and composer. Born on a military base in Nogales, Arizona in 1922 and raised in Watts, California, his earliest musical influences came from the church-- choir and group singing-- and from "hearing Duke Ellington over the radio when [he] was eight years old." He studied double bass and composition in a formal way (five years with H. Rheinshagen, principal...
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Charles Mingus was one of the all-time great jazz bass players but he was also an innovative composer and a leader with a clear vision of where he wanted to go and, in truth, little sympathy for those who couldnt keep up with him. As a young jobbing bass man in the forties he played with the likes of Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton and his idol Duke Ellington. In the fifties he pursued a solo career and launched his own record label. After a brief withdrawal from music in the late sixties he returned...
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By 1956, with the release of Pithecanthropus Erectus (Atlantic), Mingus had clearly found himself as a composer and leader, creating pulsating, ever-shifting compendiums of jazz's past and present, feeling his way into the free jazz of the future. For the next decade, he would pour forth an extraordinary body of work for several labels, including key albums like The Clown, New Tijuana Moods, Mingus Ah Um, Blues and Roots and Oh Yeah; standards like "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat," "Better Git It in Your Soul...
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Dave Bainbridge founder of Celtic Progressive Rock band Iona in conversation with Jon Kirkman about his debut solo album Veil Of Gossamer.
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Introducing Charles Mingus [Digipak] [Remastered] (1xCD)
Introducing Charles Mingus [Digipak] [Remastered] (1xCD)
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A pioneering bassist and composer, Mingus redefined jazz's terrain. He penned over 300 works spannig gutbucket gospel, Colombian cumbias, orchestral tone poems, multimedia performance, and chamber jazz. By the time he was 35, his growing body of music won increasing attention as it unfolded into one pioneering musical venture after another, from classical-meets-jazz extended pieces to spoken-word and dramatic performances and television and movie soundtracks. But Mingus got headlines less for his...
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CHARLES MINGUS Epitaph (2009 UK PAL DVD - On June 3rd 1989, the Alice Tully Hall at New York's Lincoln Center was the venue for the world premiere performance of Charles Mingus' masterpiece 'Epitaph'. Conductor Gunther Schuller directed 30 musicians in what the New York Times described as 'One of the most memorable jazz events of the decade' . The piece had been discovered after Mingus' death in 1979 and painstakingly restored and copied. It is the largest and longest piece for jazz...
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