Word: mingus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negro Bass Player Charlie Mingus is a talented, successful and angry man-so angry, in fact, that he planned to leave for an island in the Mediterranean and never return to the U.S. Mingus changed his mind, but the anger remains. It is shared in some degree by many Negro jazz musicians, and its major cause is anti-Negro prejudice in a field that Negroes regard as their own. Its result is the regrettable kind of reverse segregation known as Crow Jim-a feeling that the white man has no civil rights when it comes to jazz...
...Charlie Mingus has developed the most intensely personal, large-souled, and complete body of music in modern jazz. Before you speak out against such a categorical statement, pick up Mingus Presents Mingus (Candid 8005) and give another listen to Mingus Ah Um (Columbia...
...named Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Charles Mingus, Coltrane as some of the "bolder experimenter" in jazz form...
...brightest note at Newport was sounded by a rebel group of modern jazzmen who launched their own competing festival in a rambling seaside hotel, Cliff Walk Manor. Headed by Bass Player Charlie Mingus and Drummer Max Roach, the rebels played right through the riotous weekend, drew 750 people on Sunday night, grossed $4,700. With the encouragement of Louis Lorillard's divorced wife Elaine, they made plans to form their own Jazz Artists' Guild, and to sell tapes of their concerts, which eventually may appear on four LPs under the title Rebellion at Newport. The cool rebels, including...