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The Great Concert of Charles Mingus
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004
Track listing: ATFW; So Long Eric; Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk; Fables of Faubus; Sophisticated
Lady; Parkeriana; Meditations (Or For a Pair of Wire Cutters)
Tonight at Noon
Label: Water Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: Tonight at Noon, Invisible Lady, 'Old' Blues for Walt's Torin, Peggy's Blue, Skylight, Passions of a Woman Loved
Mingus In Greenwich Village
by Mark Sabbatini
Charles Mingus Mingus In Greenwich Village Efor Films 2004 As he waits for police to arrive with an eviction order he plays piano, discusses Nazism and fires a rifle into his apartment ceiling as his 5-year-old daughter watches. There's a reason Charles Mingus is known as the “angry ...
Charles Mingus: Tonight at Noon
by Joel Roberts
A valuable reissue for Mingus fans, Tonight at Noon compiles five tunes originally recorded for two of the great bassist's most important album's, 1957's The Clown and 1961's Oh Yeah. Though the two sessions cover somewhat different stylistic ground, they blend together seamlessly and amount to much more than a haphazard assemblage of dusty outtakes. The ...
That Grand Dan Sound: Why Everyone Knows Steely Dan When They Hear Them
by Eric Pettine
Ok, so Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk and Dave Brubeck used them throughout the 1950s. In the 1960s and most of the 1970s, adventurous and ambitious horn-adorned groups like Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tears also experimented successfully with them too. But we're talking cool chords (and their various permutations) here folks, not drugs.
The Great Concert of Charles Mingus
by Joshua Weiner
Charles Mingus The Great Concert of Charles Mingus Verve 1964/2004 For all that it has survived over the past century, jazz music can be a fragile thing. Its reliance on improvisation and near-telepathic communion between group members means that for something truly transcendent to occur, the stars must be aligned ...
The Man That Was Mingus
by R.J. DeLuke
Myself, When I Am Real Gene Santoro Oxford Univ Press ISBN: 0195097335 Charles Mingus stands as one of jazz music’s imposing figures. Imposing because of the breadth and depth of his music, but also for his charisma and at time tempestuous personality.Like many great artists, his ...
Savoy Jazz Reaches 60, But Looks Beyond
by R.J. DeLuke
Every so often someone in jazz has their career resurrected. Different elements feed into that. Good luck; a sudden public “discovery;" Perseverance. Going on in jazz right now, however, is the resurrection of an old tried and true recording label, Savoy Jazz. It's the result of hard work and a desire to maintain classic ...
Clues and Roots: Tracing the Genius of Mingus
by Alan Jones
When I first heard the music of Charles Mingus it was if I had been struck violently from underneath, yet the subsequent fall was a welcome descent embodied by contemplation and a strange sense of satisfaction. The record was Blues and Roots, and the moments of discovery in the listening journey since have been few and ...
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