Jazz Articles about Mingus Big Band

Mingus Big Band at the Newman Center

by Geoff Anderson
April 28, 2023

Mingus Big Band Newman Center Denver, Colorado April 6, 2023 The Mingus Big Band is serious business. Charles Mingus was a serious composer and musician. The band itself is serious about presenting Mingus' music. And the lineup of musicians is just as serious as all of the above. (See line up, below.) Thursday night at the Newman Center, the 14-piece Mingus Big Band arrived packed with all-stars. In fact, many, if ...

Mingus Big Band al Roma Jazz Festival 2022

by Mario Calvitti
December 16, 2022

Mingus Big Band Roma Jazz Festival 2022 Auditorium Roma 13.11.2022 Nata pochi anni dopo la scomparsa di Charles Mingus, la Mingus Big Band è una delle tre tribute band (insieme a Mingus Dynasty, di cui rappresenta un allargamento, e la Mingus Orchestra) sorte per iniziativa della vedova del musicista Sue Ungaro, con lo scopo di preservare la ricchissima eredità musicale del contrabbassista attraverso una serie di tour (e album) dedicati alle sue composizioni. ...

La Mingus Big Band al Teatro Golden di Palermo

by Maurizio Zerbo
November 24, 2022

Mingus Big Band Nomos Jazz Teatro Golden Palermo 18.11.2022. Un concerto esemplare per dimostrare quanto l'arte di Mingus sia policentrica e multiforme, continuando a esercitare un'influenza profonda sulla contemporaneità musicale. Nei brani proposti dalla Mingus Big Band si ritrovano le componenti essenziali dell'estetica mingusiana: chorus esteso, struttura dalla durata indeterminata, polifonia modulare nell'improvvisazione collettiva. Un'energia travolgente anima la rivisitazione dei capolavori “Gunslingin Bird," “Cumbia and Jazz Fusion," “Peggy's Blue Skylight" nel segno ...

Charles Mingus 95th Birthday Celebration

by Peter Jurew
May 10, 2017

Mingus Big BandJazz StandardNew York, NY April 24, 2017 Saturday, April 22, was an unusually good day. It started, blessedly, when the president did not tweet out a series of early morning fabrications/accusations to befuddle the free world. And it could only get better from there: It was Earth Day! Scientists marked the 27th edition with a global March For Science, and tens of thousands of people made a full-throated defense of fact-based (as opposed ...

The Cookers, Mingus Big Band and Cyrus Chestnut

by Peter Jurew
September 22, 2016

The Cookers Birdland New York, NY September 15, 2016 The Cookers are an all-star septet that takes its name from the classic Freddie Hubbard album, The Night Of The Cookers, a 1965 live effort from the master trumpeter who passed in 2008. A somewhat fluid lineup earlier in the group's seven year existence has solidified with trumpeters David Weiss and Eddie Henderson out front with Billy Harper on tenor and Donald Harrison ...

The Mingus Big Band: Live in Tokyo

by Robert R. Calder
October 14, 2006

"Wham, Bam," indeed! Compared to the best performances by the late Charles Mingus, this effort has the air of more orthodox big bands like the ones led by Clarke/Boland and Jones/Lewis, which is also to say the best. McCoy Tyner's band on a good night has included some of the same performers featured on this live release, and Dave Kikoski is a somewhat Tynerish pianist, but for all that, the Mingus truth burns through. The drive of ...

Mingus Big Band: Tonight At Noon. . .Three or Four Shades of Love

by Craig W. Hurst
July 16, 2002

The legacy of the artistic genius of bassist/composer/bandleader Charles Mingus continues its viability nearly a quarter century after his untimely death. Through the creative vision of his widow Sue Mingus, conductor/arranger Gunther Schuller, arrangers Robbie Cuber, Jack Walrath, Sydney Johnson, and the cadre of New York jazz musicians associated with the Mingus Big Band and Charles Mingus Orchestra, Charles Mingus' music continues to intellectually provoke and intrigue listeners.

The newest installment by the Mingus ...