StayJack artist file
Charles Mingus
1922 — 1979
Bass & composition
Post-BopThird StreamAvant-Garde
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A short portrait
Mingus wrote ensembles as communities of distinct voices. Blues, gospel, Ellingtonian color and political anger collide in music that is both carefully composed and fiercely alive.
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Timeline
Co-founds Debut Records, asserting control over how the music is documented.
Pithecanthropus Erectus establishes a new workshop sound.
Mingus Ah Um draws past traditions into a vividly modern language.
Records The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, his great studio suite.
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Essential records
CL 1370
Charles Mingus
MingusAhUm
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Charles Mingus
Mingus Ah Um
A-35
Charles Mingus
TheBlackSaintandtheSinnerLady
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Charles Mingus
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
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Selected listening
Mingus Ah Um
An official Spotify embed, selected as a place to begin.