Charles Mingus

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Charles Mingus

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According to Wikipedia, Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author. A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered to be one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history, with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz greats such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Max Roach, and Eric Dolphy. Mingus's work ranged from advanced bebop and avant-garde jazz with small and midsize ensembles, to pioneering the post-bop style on seminal recordings like Pithecanthropus Erectus and Mingus Ah Um , and progressive big band experiments such as The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady .

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Charles Mingus's Published Works

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Beneath the Underdog (1971) (38)
The Black saint and the sinner lady (1987) (9)
New Tijuana moods (1987) (2)
Cumbia & jazz fusion (1988) (1)
Mingus at Monterey (1986) (0)
The Complete Blue Note Sidney Bechet (1986) (0)
A Bibliography of Jazz@@@The Literature of Jazz@@@The Night People: Reminiscences of a Jazzman@@@Blow My Blues Away@@@Beneath the Underdog@@@Folk Blues; 110 American Folk Blues Compiled, Edited, and Arranged for Voice, Piano, and Guitar (1972) (0)
Mingus in Europe (1988) (0)
His final work (1988) (0)
Orchestre national de jazz 87 (1988) (0)

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University at Buffalo