Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader. His compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop, drawing heavily from black gospel music and blues, while sometimes containing elements of Third Stream, free jazz, and classical music. He once cited Duke Ellington and church as his main influences.
Mingus espoused collective improvisation, similar to the old New Orleans jazz parades, paying particular attention to how each band member interacted with the group as a whole. In creating his bands, he looked not only at the skills of the available musicians, but also their personalities. Many musicians passed through his bands and later went on to impressive careers. He recruited talented and sometimes little-known artists, whom he utilized to assemble unconventional instrumental configurations. As a performer, Mingus was a pioneer in double bass technique, widely recognized as one of the instrument's most proficient players.
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- Jazzical Moods released: 2014
- Three or Four Shades of Blues released: 2013
- Mitos do jazz, Volume 19: Charles Mingus released: 2012
- The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady / Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus released: 2011
- Charles Mingus: Original Album Series released: 2011
- Charles Mingus and the Newport Rebels released: 2010
- The Savoy Recordings - Part 1 released: 2010
- The Complete Bremen Concert released: 2010
- Kind of Mingus released: 2009
- Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland released: 2008
- Mysterious Blues released: 2007
- Columbia Jazz Profiles: Charles Mingus released: 2007
- The Millennium Collection released: 2007
- Cornell 1964 released: 2007
- The Clown released: 2007
- Music Written for Monterey 1965 Not Heard... Played in Its Entirety at UCLA released: 2006
- The Impulse Story released: 2006
- His Final Work released: 2006
- A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry With Charles Mingus released: 2005
- Mingus Three released: 2005
- Modern Jazz Archive: Charles Mingus released: 2004
- The Young Rebel released: 2004
- 1959 released: 2003
- Jazz Composers Workshop released: 2003
- Blues & Roots released: 2002
- Money Jungle released: 2002
- Me, Myself an Eye released: 2002
- Charles Mingus's Finest Hour released: 2002
- Shuffle Bass Boogie released: 2001
- Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus released: 2001
- The Very Best of Charles Mingus released: 2001
- West Coast 1945-49 released: 2000
- East Coasting released: 2000
- Plays It Cool released: 2000
- Ken Burns Jazz released: 2000
- Oh Yeah released: 1999
- Fables of Faubus released: 1999
- Mingus Ah Um released: 1999
- Pithecanthropus Erectus: 1955-1957 released: 1999
- The Complete 1959 Columbia Recordings released: 1998
- Tonight at Noon released: 1998
- Mingus Dynasty released: 1998
- Sauvage released: 1997
- Mingus at Monterey released: 1997
- Passions of a Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1956–1961) released: 1997
- Priceless Jazz Collection released: 1997
- Mingus Plays Piano released: 1997
- Charles Mingus in Paris: The Complete America Session released: 1995
- 1964-04-17: Revenge!, Salle Wagram, Paris, France released: 1995
- In a Soulful Mood released: 1995
- Cumbia & Jazz Fusion released: 1994
- Debut Rarities, Volume 4 released: 1994
- Mingus at Carnegie Hall released: 1994
- Mingus at Antibes released: 1994
- Town Hall Concert released: 1994
- The Collection released: 1993
- Mingus Moves released: 1993
- Debut Rarities, Volume 3 released: 1993
- Thirteen Pictures: The Charles Mingus Anthology released: 1993
- Debut Rarities, Volume 1: The Charles Mingus Octet / The Jimmy Knepper Quintet released: 1992
- Debut Rarities, Volume 2 released: 1992
- Let My Children Hear Music released: 1992
- 1964-04-19: The Great Concert of Charles Mingus: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, France released: 1991
- With Orchestra released: 1990
- The Complete Debut Recordings released: 1990
- Epitaph released: 1990
- Mysterious Blues released: 1989
- Live in Chateauvallon, 1972 released: 1989
- Reincarnation of a Love Bird released: 1989
- The Complete Candid Recordings of Charles Mingus released: 1989
- Charles Mingus released: 1989
- Paris TNP released: 1988
- Mingus in Europe, Volume 2 released: 1983
- Nostalgia in Times Square released: 1980
- Something Like a Bird released: 1980
- Mingus in Europe, Volume 1 released: 1979
- Passions of a Man released: 1979
- Changes Two released: 1975
- Changes One released: 1975
- The Art of Charles Mingus: The Atlantic Years released: 1973
- Charles Mingus and Friends released: 1973
- Blue Bird released: 1971
- The Best of Charles Mingus released: 1970
- Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop released: 1966
- Town Hall Concert released: 1964
- Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus released: 1964
- The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady released: 1963
- Mingus at the Bohemia released: 1955
- Strings and Keys released: 1953
- Eight Classic Albums released:
- Bremen 1975 released:
- Tijuana Moods released:
- Mingus released:
- This Is Jazz, Volume 6 released:
- Pre-Bird released:
- Pithecanthropus Erectus released:
- The Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach released:
Music Written for Monterey 1965 Not Heard... Played in Its Entirety at UCLA
Released 2006- [opening speech]
- Meditation on Inner Piece
- [speech introducing musicians]
- Meditation on Inner Piece
- [speech]
- Once Upon a Time, There Was a Holding Corporation Called Old America (first false start)
- [lecture to band]
- Once Upon a Time, There Was a Holding Corporation Called Old America (second false start)
- Ode to Bird and Dizzy
- [speech: call octet back]
- They Trespass the Land of the Sacred Sioux
The Young Rebel
Released 2004- Boppin' in Boston
- Say It Isn't So
- The Story of Love
- Inspiration, Parts 1 & 2
- Swedish Pastry
- Cheek to Cheek
- Night and Day
- Time and Tide
- I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling
- September Song
- Move
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- I'll Remember April
- I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
- Little White Lies
- Have You Met Miss Jones
- Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
- Good Bait
- September in the Rain
- Budo
- East of the Sun
- If I Had You
- This Can't Be Love
- I'm Yours
- Godchild
West Coast 1945-49
Released 2000- The Texas Hop
- Baby, Take a Chance With Me
- Lonesome Woman Blues
- Swingin' an Echo
- Ain't Jivin' Blues
- Baby, Take a Chance With Me
- Shuffle Bass Boogie
- Weird Nightmare
- Make Believe
- Honey, Take a Chance With Me
- Bedspread
- This Subdues My Passion
- Pipe Dream
- Mingus Fingers
- These Foolish Things
- Story of Love
- He's Gone
- Pennies From Heaven
- Lyon's Roar
- Say It Isn't So
- Boppin' in Boston
- The Story of Love
- Inspiration
- [rehearsal fragment for "He's Gone"]
Mingus at Monterey
Released 1997- Ellington Medley: I've Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
- Ellington Medley: In a Sentimental Mood
- Ellington Medley: All Too Soon
- Ellington Medley: Mood Indigo
- Ellington Medley: Sophisticated Lady
- Ellington Medley: Take the "A" Train
- Orange Was the Color of Her Dress Then Blue Silk
- Meditations on Integration
Debut Rarities, Volume 3
Released 1993- [untitled original blues] (take 1)
- Stella by Starling (take 4)
- Stella by Starling (take 5)
- [untitled original composition] (take 3)
- [untitled original composition] (take 5)
- Autumn in New York (take 1)
- Autumn in New York (take 2)
- Long Ago (and Far Away) (take 2)
- Long Ago (and Far Away) (take 4)
- Long Ago (and Far Away) (take 5)
- [untitled original blues] (take 2)
- Joldi (take 4)
- Joldi (take 5)
Debut Rarities, Volume 1: The Charles Mingus Octet / The Jimmy Knepper Quintet
Released 1992- Pink Topsy
- Miss Bliss
- Blue Tide
- Pink Topsy (alternate take)
- Eclipse (alternate take)
- Eclipse
- Latter Day Saint
- Cunningbird
- The Jumpin' Blues (Jump the Blues Away)
- The Masher
- Latter Day Saint (alternate take 1)
- Latter Day Saint (alternate take 2)
- The Masher (alternate take)
- Latter Day Saint (alternate take #?)
Debut Rarities, Volume 2
Released 1992- What Is This Thing Called Love?
- Darn That Dream
- Yesterdays (piano solo)
- Body and Soul
- Blue Moon
- Blue Tide
- Darn That Dream (alternate take)
- Jeepers Creepers (take 1)
- Jeepers Creepers (take 2)
- Day Dream (take 1)
- Day Dream (take 2)
- Theme From "Rhapsody in Blue" (take 1)
- Theme From "Rhapsody in Blue" (take 2)
- Jet (take 1)
- Jet (take 2)
1964-04-19: The Great Concert of Charles Mingus: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, France
Released 1991The Complete Debut Recordings
Released 1990- What Is This Thing Called Love?
- Darn That Dream
- Yesterdays
- Body and Soul
- Blue Moon
- Blue Tide
- Darn That Dream (alternate take)
- Jeepers Creepers (take 1)
- Jeepers Creepers (take 2)
- Portrait (take 1) (alternate take)
- Portrait (take 2)
- I've Lost My Love (take 1)
- I've Lost My Love (take 2)
- Extrasensory Perception
- Extrasensory Perception (alternate take)
- Precognition
- Make Believe
- Paris in Blue
- Montage
- Day Dream (take 1)
- Day Dream (take 2)
- Theme From "Rhapsody in Blue" (take 1)
- Theme From "Rhapsody in Blue" (take 2)
Born: 1922-04-22
Died: 1979-01-05
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Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus
by: Charles MingusThis mule ain’t from Moscow
This mule ain’t from the South
But this mule has some learnin'
Mostly mouth-to-mouth
This mule could be called stubborn and lazy
But in a clever sorta’ way this mule could be workin’,
waitin’ and learnin’ and plannin’
For a sacred kind of day
A day when burnin’ sticks and crosses is not mere
child’s play
But a madman in his most incandescent bloom
Whose lover’s soul is imperfection and is most lustrous
groom
So, stand fast there young mule
Soothe in contemplation
That burning whole and aching thigh
Your stubbornness is ever living
And cool anxiety is about to die
Freedom for your daddy
Freedom for your momma
Freedom for your brothers and sisters
But no freedom for me
Freedom for your daddy’s daddy
Freedom for your momma’s momma
Freedom for your brothers and sisters
But no freedom for me
Freedom for your daddy’s daddy
Freedom for your momma’s momma
Freedom for your brothers and sisters
But no freedom for me
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