Charles Mingus
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Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop: East Coasting (12in. Parlophone PMCI092)***
Review by uncredited writer, Disc, 30 January 1960
Mingus is blazing, bitter — and outstanding ...
Charles Mingus: Beneath The Underdog (Penguin paperback 75p)
Book Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 24 January 1976
Mingus hits out ...
Charles Mingus's Sound of Love
Obituary by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 20 January 1979
Charles Mingus died in Mexico on January 5, of amytrophic lateral sclerosis, a condition also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. He had been in Mexico ...
Review by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 30 June 1979
IF YOU WERE to point an accusing finger at me and say I'd no qualifications to review a jazz album, I'd agree with you in ...
Charles Mingus: What’s Everyone Got Against a Legend?
Retrospective by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 8 August 1993
In his lifetime, Charles Mingus was a rebel and a true giant of jazz, Now the Library of Congress has acquired his works and he’s ...
Robert Wyatt: Invisible Jukebox
Interview by Mike Barnes, Wire, The, December 1995
Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...
Charles Mingus: A Musical Misfit In Black And White
Retrospective by James Maycock, Independent, The, 28 November 1997
A traumatic childhood and a dramatic life characterised the career of the bassist Charles Mingus. James Maycock looks at a documentary on a 'phenomenal musician ...
Charles Mingus' Aces Back to Back and other jazz reissues
Review by Gene Santoro, Nation, The, 18 February 1999
FOR THE PAST year and a half, I've been spending most of my time between 1922 and 1979 – the years of Charles Mingus's birth ...
Retrospective by Gene Santoro, Village Voice, The, 6 June 2000
IN MID-1962, Charles Mingus made a deal with United Artists. He wanted to lead a big band, but he wanted to record it live, before ...
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Guardian, The, 4 July 2002
There's the Mingus Big Band, the Mingus Orchestra... and then there's Eric Mingus. He talks to Adam Sweeting about life in a jazz dynasty ...
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