Word: mingus
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...three recently released box sets, Rhino set out to document recordings by musical giants--Ornette Coleman, Otis Redding and Charles Mingus--and, through meticulous care and sparkling remasters and mixes, has succeeded in producing wonderful collections...
...Charles Mingus's Thirteen Pictures, a two-CD set, part of an ongoing Rhino Presents The Atlantic Jazz Gallery series, tries to provide a retrospective of Mingus's whole career, without releasing all of something...
...most part, the set succeeds. The 13 tracks selected here all capture Mingus's eccentric brilliance and startling arranging style...
...Spot, the Manhattan mecca for cutting-edge jazz. It is one of those debut dates that are more like a trial by fire: chops will be checked out, irrevocable judgments passed. Slipping the cover off his bass, Haden, who is 22, looks up at the bar and sees Charles Mingus. Percy Heath. Ray Brown. And more: "Every great bass player, staring right in my face. From that moment on, I closed my eyes...
...host for a 13-week series of documentaries and short films, produced by Stevenson Palfi and Blaine Dunlap, celebrating American music, from the making of the cast album for Company to profiles of singer Eartha Kitt, jazz/ rock fiddler Papa John Creach and legendary bassist and composer Charles Mingus...