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Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author.
Apr 18, 2024 · Charles Mingus, American jazz composer, bassist, bandleader, and pianist whose work integrated loosely composed passages with improvised solos.
One of the most important figures in twentieth century American music, Charles Mingus was a virtuoso bass player, accomplished pianist, bandleader and composer.
Apr 21, 2022 · Regarded as one of the most important figures in jazz, tributes are planned across the world to honor the legacy of bassist, bandleader and pioneer Charles Mingus.
Apr 21, 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...
Apr 22, 2022 · Born in Nogales, Ariz. on April 22, 1922 and raised in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, Mingus was a uniquely American creation, and a bramble of contradictions. A sensitive...
One of the most important figures in twentieth century American music, Charles Mingus was a virtuoso bass player, accomplished pianist, bandleader and composer
Apr 22, 2022 · The inventive compositions of jazz bassist Charles Mingus and his volatile personality loom large in the jazz world. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: Charles Mingus would have turned 100 today.
Apr 21, 2022 · The jazz bassist and composer, who was born 100 years ago on April 22nd, was “powerful…completely individual…volatile…strong…supremely honest and uncompromising,” said his widow, Sue ...
Jan 9, 1979 · Charles Mingus, one of the leading Jazz bass players, bandleaders and composers of the last 25 years, died Friday of a heart attack in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He had...
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