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1 Sep 2014, 6:45 pm
Charles Mingus famously got mad at someone and broke his $20,000 bass.But there's some restriction of the definition of the feat that puts Pete Townsend first. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 1:41 pm
The other day, I was blogging about tags, and somebody asked what are all the tags. [read post]
11 May 2013, 5:35 pm
He was a familiar face on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where he wandered the streets with a notebook, read his poetry in coffeehouses – often against a background of a Charles Mingus recording – and fed feral cats in the predawn hours.... [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 2:19 pm
Mingus is the only person who doesn't speak or understand French and the visit only grows more awkward by the minute: From the RAG's failed attempts to connect with Mingus over Salt-n-Pepa and smoking weed, to the series of unexpected personal displays of affection from Marion's dad which include his triple-cheek kissing and feather-tickling, to the RAG's insistence that Mingus' sister Elizabeth (Malinda Williams) "looks just like… [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 12:39 pm
Cohen talks, jazz, counter-rhythms and playing with Charles Mingus and Ornette Coleman. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 3:22 pm
As a classical composer and performer, his integration of jazz (including being one of the first noted as an improvising jazz French hornist[1]), ethnic and folk music has led him to work with the likes of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Willie Nelson, Langston Hughes, Charles Mingus, Leonard Bernstein, Sir James Galway, Tito Puente, Mary Lou Williams, Joseph Papp, Arthur Miller, Miles Davis, Arturo Sandoval, Stan Getz, Pete Seeger, Elia Kazan, Odetta, Lord… [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 4:18 am
It reminds me of "Mingus Ah Hum", or the early work of Ornette Coleman, chaotic but with purpose and structure that becomes apparent as you become familiar with the work. [read post]
26 Jun 2011, 3:22 pm
Charles McPherson is an alto saxophone player known for his work with Charles Mingus throughout the 1960s. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 5:00 pm
"Mingus Constructors, Inc. v. [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 11:07 am
Sitting mediation is a great way to settle down everyone's mind, I would say, most of our rehearsals are very focused.Our music practice is jazz-based and we play Mingus, Ellington, Monk, etc. [read post]
23 Dec 2008, 7:46 pm
Among our kids' Hanukah gifts this year were books from this series starring Duck Ellington (who inexplicably raps), also featuring Charlie Bird (plays sax), Ella the Elephant (she scats), Miles the Crocodile, Mingus Mouse, Louis Lion, and Philly Joe Giraffe (drums). [read post]
30 Dec 2007, 8:42 am
"More and more communities are either adopting (residency restrictions) or looking into it," Mingus said. [read post]
19 Aug 2007, 1:55 pm
You can hear him at his most vibrant on Clifford Brown and Max Roach (Emarcy/Universal, 1954), Thelonius Monk's Brilliant Corners (Riverside/Concord, 1956) and Money Jungle, in trio with Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus (Blue Note/EMI, 1962), which Ben Ratliffe of the NYT aptly called "an odd record of aggression and calm," but which I never get tired of. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 9:15 pm
Fortunately, Mingus got that reversed just a year later. [read post]
