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 ...
Charlie Mingus: Jazz Man Is Changing His Beat
Report and Interview by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 27 August 1962
Charlie Mingus at Work on Story of His Hard Times Bassist Is Planning to Leave U.S. and Write Symphony ...
Albums from Charles Mingus, the MJQ and Charlie Byrd
Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 12 November 1966
Mingus, MJQ And Yule Classic ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 25 April 1970
Miles Davis Stirs Up New Sounds ...
Charlie Mingus: Let My Children Hear Music (Columbia); The Candid Recordings (Barnaby/Candid)
Review by Dan Nooger, Rock, June 1972
One of the finest bassists and composers of the 20th century ...
Charles Mingus: Beneath The Underdog (Penguin paperback 75p)
Book Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 24 January 1976
Mingus hits out ...
Charles Mingus, Jazz Pioneer, Dead
Obituary by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 9 January 1979
CHARLES MINGUS, the innovative jazz composer, band leader and bassist, died Friday night in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He was 56. ...
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 ...
Charlie Mingus: April 22, 1922 — Jan 5, 1979
Obituary by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 20 January 1979
SOME TIME back a 'friend' borrowed a large number of my jazz albums — and sold them. All I can say is that the rip-off ...
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 ...
Joni Mitchell: Mingus (Asylum)
Review by Ariel Swartley, Rolling Stone, 6 September 1979
The babe in bopperland and the great jazz composer ...
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, The Wire, 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, The Independent, 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: a musical misfit in black and white
Film/DVD/TV Review by James Maycock, The Independent, 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, The Nation, 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 ...
Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 11 November 1999
JOHN COLTRANE, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus were not just virtuoso musicians but path-breaking composers and bandleaders who shaped the sound of modern ...
Charles Mingus: Growing Up Absurd
Book Excerpt by Gene Santoro, 'Myself When I Am Real' (Oxford University Press), 2000
THE BABY, barely three months old and pudgy but with bright eyes and an inquiring air, was the center of attention as he fussed on ...
Retrospective by Gene Santoro, The Village Voice, 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, The Guardian, 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 ...
see also Eric Mingus
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