Word: mingus
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...around a candle, smoked four joints (each three inches long and less than a quarter-inch thick) in 21 hours. At first they chattered animatedly about what records to play: Charlie Parker won out over a Bach B Minor Mass, and the sound track from Black Orpheus over Charlie Mingus. Then the smokers lapsed into sporadic metaphors and banalities. They pepped up briefly at the delight of peering into a multicolored kaleidoscope, ended by staring solemnly and in silence at the candle, one another and into space...
...CHARLIE MINGUS: TONIGHT AT NOON (Atlantic) is the sort of stuff that Ellington should be doing: original jazz works of concert length and worth. Bassist-Pianist Mingus' debt to Ellington is most apparent in Invisible Lady where both mood and the stylish trombone solo of Jimmie Knepper are evocative of the Duke at his best. Peggy's Blue Skylight features Mingus on piano and a haunting tenor sax solo by Booker Ervin...
...drifted from band to band-Lionel Hampton, Billy Taylor, Duke Ellington, Red Norvo. "Mingus wouldn't knuckle under to anyone-he had to be a leader," explains his ex-wife No. 2. So he started up his own band and played the jazz clubs. His big break came in 1957, when Brandeis University commissioned him to compose a jazz piece. He wrote Revelations, and critics promptly awarded him a place among the greats of avant-garde jazz...
Back of the Bus. Mingus is an angry man, sensitive about his color, and the fact that his skin is "high yellow" only makes him more intense about being a Negro. He broods, he gulps red wine by the gallon, he brawls in bars. He has been twice divorced, three times married, has fathered six children. His present wife, Judy Starkey, is white. Perpetually bitter, usually unkempt, he rants against racial discrimination and society in general. "Don't call me a jazz musician. The word jazz means nigger, discrimination, second-class citizenship, the back...
...written out his frustrations in a 1,500-page manuscript. Beneath the Underdog, as the book is tentatively titled, deals with racial discrimination, God, yoga, the jazz life, government subsidies, gangsters, sex, Charlie Parker, extrasensory perception, personal hardships and crises when, as Mingus puts it, "everything turns white for me." A former mental patient at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, Mingus tells anyone willing to listen: "They say I'm crazy, and I really...