Word: mingus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Town Hall Concert (Charlie Mingus; United Artists Jazz). Big-band jazz in Mingus' highly original and often inspired conception...
...horns all over Europe and the U.S.; he is a dauntless explorer of the frontiers of sound, a man who simply wants to play as much music as any one man can. A devotee of Brazilian Composer Villa-Lobos, the twelve-tone pioneer Arnold Schoenberg and Bassist Charlie Mingus, Kirk plays modern jazz but rejects the label. "People classify modern as being cool and not wanting to sweat," he says...
...Mingus: Oh Yeah (Atlantic). Musical anarchy and social commentary mixed into a fascinating trouble-pudding by fretful Charlie...
...Mingus and others, jazz is far more than music. It is a shared heritage, a symbol of achievement, a language in which to tell what Negro Drummer Max Roach calls "the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through." It is also a private language. Through jazz, Negro Pianist Billy Taylor points out, the Negro has always been able "to say many things musically that would never have been accepted by a white American had he verbalized them...
...Charlie Mingus denies that Crow Jim exists: "How can you talk about Crow-Jim and look at Mississippi?" And, adds Negro Pianist Horace Silver: "The whites started crying Crow Jim when the public got hip that Negroes play the best jazz." Nonetheless, believes Silver, the differ ence between soul or "funk" music and other varieties of jazz is the difference between talking "colored" and ordinary English-and only a Negro musician can feel it. "It is murder today for white jazz players. Negro clubs just won't play them." says Impresario George Wein. White Pianist Paul Winter...