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	Charles Mingus - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		He and Mingus formed one of the most impressive and versatile rhythm sections in jazz: Both were accomplished performers seeking to stretch the boundaries of their music while staying true to its roots; when joined by pianist Jaki Byard, they were dubbed "The Almighty Three".
		Mingus' onstage destruction of an $800 bass, prompted British rockers The Animals – avid fans who witnessed Mingus's characteristic explosion at a London show – to emulate the outburst, starting a trend of rampant outro destruction of musical equipment in 'rock theater' popularized by Jimi Hendrix and The Who, which continues to this day.
		Mingus is the namesake of Mingus Rude, a character in Jonathan Lethem's novel The Fortress of Solitude.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=7668 (1533 words)

	Epitaph (Mingus) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Epitaph is the master work of jazz musician Charles Mingus.
		This concert was produced by Mingus' widow, Sue, at Alice Tully Hall on June 3, 1989, ten years after his death.
		The New Yorker wrote that Epitaph represents the first advance in jazz composition since Duke Ellington's "Black, Brown, and Beige," which was written in 1943.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epitaph_(Mingus) (730 words)

	Charles Mingus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Mingus is highly ranked among the composers and performers of jazz, and he recorded many highly regarded albums.
		Mingus was born in Nogales, Arizona, but was raised largely in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.His mother's paternal heritage was Chinese, while historical records indicate that his father was the illegitimate offspring of a mulatto farmhand and his employer's white granddaughter [1].
		In 1963, Mingus released The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, a sprawling, multi-section masterpiece, described as "one of the greatest achievements in orchestration by any composer in jazz history." [4] The album was also unique in that Mingus asked his psychotherapist to provide notes for the record.
	www.infoforyou.org /input.php?title=Charles_Mingus (2772 words)

	Charles Mingus biography - 8notes.com
		Mingus is often considered the heir apparent to Duke Ellington, for whom he expressed unqualified admiration.
		He and Mingus formed one of the most impressive and versatile rhythm sections in jazz: Both were accomplished performers seeking to stretch the boundries of their music while staying true to its roots; when joined by pianist Jaki Byard, they were dubbed 'The Almighty Three'.
		In 1963, Mingus released The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, a sprawling, multi-section masterpiece, described as 'one of the greatest achievements in orchestration by any composer in jazz history.' 3 (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amganduid=UIDSUB040405070932540817andsql=A4f867ur070jd) The album was unique in that Mingus asked his psychotherapist to provide notes for the record.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/mingus.asp (1616 words)

	Salon \| Sharps and Flats
		Mingus died a second time on Nov. 22, 1966, when he was evicted from his New York loft for failure to pay rent.
		The implication was that Mingus at his most ambitious was too complicated to be left in the hands of mortal musicians.
		If "Carolyn" is Mingus at his most visceral, a song such as "Number 29" is technically demanding in a way that seems more organic than what I've heard of "Epitaph." Written in the early '70s, "Number 29" was originally a dare requiring a trumpeter to play virtually every note on the instrument.
	www.salon.com /april97/sharps/sharps970422.html (1365 words)

	Charles Mingus
		Mingus quickly became one of the few bassiets to become a leader among the musician.
		Another, shorter-lived recording venture was Charles Mingus Records which suvived for barely a year, from 1964-65; the failure to find a publisher for his autobiography Beneath the Underdog, and other setbacks broke his bank account and his spirit.
		In 1971 Mingus was awarded the Slee Chair of Music and spent a semester teaching composition at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
	www.duke.edu /~sw2/mingus (854 words)

	Mingus: Biography
		Mingus received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Smithsonian Institute, and the Guggenheim Foundation (two grants).
		Mingus' masterwork, "Epitaph," a composition which is more than 4000 measures long and which requires two hours to perform, was discovered during the cataloguing process.
		The Library of Congress was presented with the Charles Mingus Collection in 1993, including autographed manuscripts, photographs, literary manuscripts, correspondence, and tape recordings of interviews, broadcasts, recording sessions, and Mingus composing at the piano.
	www.mingusmingusmingus.com /Mingus/index.html (869 words)

	CHARLES MINGUS 3
		Mingus told me he wrote it in 1939, when he was 17; the liner notes suggest 1941, when he was 19.
		Add to this the fact that Mingus was using it as a recording session, and would have different sections of a piece performed separately for later editing together, and you can begin to appreciate the confusion felt by some of the audience.
		Mingus apologized to the audience, as he had done several times earlier, and began to leave the stage to desultory applause.
	www.holeintheweb.com /drp/drpcm3.htm (3509 words)

	phoenixnewtimes.com - Music - MINGUS AMONG US
		Mingus was the first to rip apart the stereotype of the nerd plucking the standup bass.
		Mingus knew he was a hot--as well as hotheaded--composer and, for the years prior to his death, secretly worked on an overview of his musical compositions to be called Epitaph.
		Mingus the compelling composer, and Mingus the wild-eyed bandleader who stretched his jazz to near-mayhem, could be celebrated anywhere.
	www.phoenixnewtimes.com /Issues/1993-04-21/music/suntracks_full.html (2390 words)

	Jelly review: Mingus Big Band
		As good as Charles Mingus was as a bass player, which is to say one of the greatest, I am sure he will eventually be remembered more as a composer.
		This is a shame, since Mingus is one of a handful of truly great jazz composers, extending the tradition of Ellington and Monk, and striding the full range of jazz from gospel and Dixieland to hard bop and free jazz.
		The Mingus Big Band, run by Mingus's widow Sue, evolved from the large group put together by Gunther Schuller for the posthumous performance of Mingus's massive "Epitaph." The band plays weekly in New York with a revolving list of performers and arrangers.
	www.jellyroll.com /01/mingus.html (900 words)

	Amazon.com: Epitaph: Music: Charles Mingus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		These are the great compositions that Mingus left after his death to be played as his "epitaph," and they are complex and challenging to the listener.
		'Epitaph my a-s' he probably said..through all that thunder and lightening that struck over Wolf Trap the first time this great reconstructed collection was played in public...with his wife in the audience hearing both the thunder in the music and the thunder in the sky...
		The lineup was spectacular and Mingus' widow and the (I'm working off memory) academic from Toronto who compiled the work from a trunk of numbered scoeres were both on hand.
	www.amazon.com /Epitaph-Charles-Mingus/dp/B0000026WQ (984 words)

	CHARLES MINGUS 4
		He contends that the version he did use "represented Mingus' latest (revised?) thinking on the piece," which is nonsense, since he is in each case relying on a 1962 manuscript, while LET MY CHILDREN HEAR MUSIC represented Mingus's thinking almost ten years later, in 1971.
		Mingus can write melodies that melt your heart with their bittersweet beauty, and he can write ferociously angry, screaming music.
		They were followed by "Ecclusiastics," the piece Mingus had recorded with Roland Kirk in 1961 -- in which a large orchestra proves unequal to the challenge of besting Kirk's one-man sax section -- and "Eclipse," a mid-forties composition, sung here by Honey Gordon.
	www.holeintheweb.com /drp/drpcm4.htm (1746 words)

	Mingus: The Mingus Bands
		Nearly 18 years after its world premiere at Lincoln Center in 1989, "Epitaph" will be performed in a series of concerts in Spring 2007 to coincide with Charles Mingus's 85th birthday year.
		Adapted and conducted by Gunther Schuller, "Epitaph" has been performed at festivals and concert halls throughout the United States, including Tanglewood, Wolf Trap, Cleveland Symphony Hall, San Francisco Symphony Hall, Chicago Jazz Festival and in all the major capitals of Europe.
		Jazz fest lineup Charles Mingus' `Epitaph' to premiere in September by Howard Reich Chicago Tribune Mar 22, 1990
	www.mingusmingusmingus.com /MingusBands/epitaph.html (636 words)

	Epitaph: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Scored for 30-piece jazz orchestra, "Epitaph" is thought by Schuller to have been worked on between 1940 and 1962.
		Some of the sections are familiar to Mingus fans from small-band recordings, particularly "Better Git It in Your Soul," "Monk, Bunk, and Vice Versa (Osmotin')," and "Peggy's Blue Skylight," and there was an attempt to record this work for United Artists in 1962.
		There is definite evidence that this is how Mingus himself thought of it that way.
	www.music.com /release/epitaph/4 (400 words)

	The Library of Congress Presents Mingus Big Band
		The concert celebrates the Library's recent acquisition of the Charles Mingus Collection, which includes manuscripts, scores, recordings, photographs, and other documents from the archives of the great jazz bassist and composer.
		Mingus Big Band was created by Sue Graham Mingus, the composer's widow and the director of Let My Children Hear Music, the Charles Mingus Institute.
		On Tuesday, June 1, Sue Graham Mingus and jazz scholar Andrew Homzy will speak at a press conference at the Library of Congress announcing the acquisition of the Charles Mingus Collection by the Library's Music Division.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/1993/93-073.html (348 words)

	Bagatellen: Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music (Columbia)
		if you listen to some of the early mingus compositions from his school days (which bear a lot more resemblance to zappa) you can hear the album in question as a giant step evolution of where his orchestral imagination was headed.
		One of the important things about Mingus as a bassist is that techincally he is the first jazz bassist to play on the level of the great classical solo bassists such as Dragonetti (1700s- 1800s), Bottesinni (1800s) & Kousivitsky (1800s-1900s).
		In terms of the history of the double bass, there were already virtuoso soloists dating back to the 1700s, Mingus was the first jazz bass player to not only play at the level of a classical soloist, but surpass it (for his time period at least).
	www.bagatellen.com /archives/row/001198.html (2846 words)

	Charles Mingus Biography
		One of the most important figures in twentieth century American music, Charles Mingus was a virtuoso bass player, accomplished pianist, bandleader and composer.
		When asked to comment on his accomplishments, Mingus said that his abilities as a bassist were the result of hard work but that his talent for composition came from God.
		A repertory band called the Mingus Dynasty and the Mingus Big Band continue to perform his music.
	www.jdscomm.com /jrr/features/bios/icons_bios/mingusbio.html (850 words)

	Jazzed in Cleveland - Part 42
		Mingus became a key figure in the evolving bop movement and jazz historian Martin Williams later said, "Mingus was the first bass soloist who functioned on the level of the very great soloists in jazz.
		Mingus, no doubt would like to be remembered as an important jazz composer, just as Duke Ellington is. While few critics rank him with Ellington, many do consider Charles Mingus an important jazz composer.
		It was Clevelander Andrew Homzy who discovered Mingus' score for Epitaph and it was performed in an historic concert on the stage of Cleveland's Severance Hall.
	www.cleveland.oh.us /wmv_news/jazz42.htm (702 words)

	Charles Mingus
		Then UA moved up the date five weeks, Mingus kept writing even newer music while rehearsals were underway, the musicians were unprepared, and the audience - most of whom were apparently expecting a fully rehearsed concert rather than a taping session with false starts, retakes and edit pieces - was flabbergasted.
		Mingus is reunited with McPherson, Handy and Kirk plus Jon Faddis (trumpet), Hamiet Bluiett (baritone sax), Richmond and Pullen on two side-long cuts, both consisting of extended individual solos rather than group improv.
		Mingus collaborated with Joni Mitchell on her album Mingus, completed after his January 1979 death.
	www.warr.org /mingus.html (3066 words)

	Tower Records - Epitaph - Charles Mingus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Originally composed for an open recording session at New York's Town Hall in 1962, EPITAPH was marked by difficulty and the subsequent release was incomplete and disappointing.
		Others were composed specifically for EPITAPH and later found their way into his regular repertoire and still others were specific to this work.
		Taken as a whole, this is a perfect epitaph for a giant of jazz.
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=1007878 (332 words)

	Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog
		The documentary is grainy, as was Mingus (1922-1979) himself: a tangled, mercurial and often misunderstood musical genius who is known today primarily as a seminal bass player, but whose compositions are the primary focus of this film.
		The look Mingus gives this man, as he tries to sneak in and get set up in a hurry, is a classic.
		There are interesting comments and interviews with Mingus's two wives, Celia Mingus Zaentz and Sue Mingus (who refer to their late husband only as "Mingus," no nicknames, not even Charlie or Charles), as well as with one of his sons, Dorian Mingus.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/CharlesMingus.htm (594 words)

	Mingus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Truly one of the greatest, Mingus shared with us his talent as a bassist, composer, arranger, leader, author, and sometimes pianist and vocalist.
		Charles Mingus began playing the double bass in high school and after years of practice he joined Barney Bigard's ensemble and played with Kid Ory.
		Recordings were made of Mingus working with jazz greats like Billy Taylor, Duke Ellington, Stan Getz, Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, and Dizzie Gillespie.
	www.actlab.utexas.edu /~horshak/greatday/mingus.html (165 words)

	etnobofin: August 2005
		An iconoclast in all things, Mingus often worked with (and wrote for) ensembles that were larger and more diverse than the standard acoustic jazz quartet/quintet format: great examples of this are the octet format heard on Mingus Ah Um and the 11-piece outfit that performed The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.
		But Charles Mingus had compositional concepts that extended beyond even mid-sized and standard big-band formats, with pieces that were written and arranged for large bands of 20 to 30 musicians, often including instruments that still remain exotic in the jazz context - bassoon, french horn, timpani.
		So to kick off, here are two of my favourites from Mingus' sprawling Epitaph suite for 30 piece orchestra, assembled and performed for the first time in 1989, a decade after the composer's death.
	etnobofin.blogspot.com /2005_08_01_etnobofin_archive.html (1735 words)

	Channel4.com - SlashMusic - Complete Town Hall Concert, The
		He had convinced the record company to let him record with a 30-piece band but hadn't completed the necessary amount of writing, and the concert had been inexplicably billed as an open recording session with an invited audience, as opposed to a performance recorded for posterity.
		THE COMPLETE TOWN HALL CONCERT is most noteworthy for the partial performance of Mingus' suite "Epitaph", whose completed score was discovered after Mingus' death and which was finally performed in its entirety at Alice Tully Hall in 1989.
		Many consider "Epitaph" to be Mingus' finest composition.
	www.channel4.com /music/music-core/album.jsp?albumId=216827 (185 words)

	Diphy - Digital Philately - View Stamp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		January 5, 1979), also known as Charlie Mingus, was an American jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist.
		Mingus was born in Nogales, Arizona, but was raised largely in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.His mother's paternal heritage was Chinese, while historical records indicate that his father was the illegitimate offspring of a mulatto farmhand and his employer's white granddaughter[1].
		Mingus often worked with a mid-sized ensemble (around 8?10 members) of rotating musicians known as theJazz Workshop.
	www.diphy.com /stamp/US1995.099 (2811 words)

	TIME.com: Critics' Voices -- May 7, 1990 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		No work has better claim to that description than Epitaph, a monumental composition (more than two hours long) by the protean jazz bassist who died in 1979.
		Shifting from blues to Ellington-like mood pieces to cacophonous yawps, the work is scored for a 30- piece band.
		It was performed once in Mingus' lifetime, haphazardly.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,970026,00.html (707 words)

	Lades: Mingus Big Band at MSU
		This Mingus Big Band concert was the first time I'd ever "seen" Henderson.
		It is not, however as might be expected, a showcase for string bass, but rather a two-part orchestral piece without improvisation: the first part a straight ahead bop swinger, the second a formidable contrapuntal edifice in fast 3/4 time.
		For a few more photos of members of the Mingus Big Band go to the single-sentence quote from a Don Heckman Los Angeles Times review of an end-of-September-2001 performance by the Band.
	www.angeltowns.com /town/ladenso1/MBB.html (1557 words)

	Epitaph Records
		Well known as an outstanding musician and versatile sideman in the outstanding groups he has founded and contributed to.
		The Rocksteady seven are musicians who bridge the worlds of ska, reggae, rocksteady, and American jazz.
		Players were recruited from both New York Ska bands such as "the Slackers", "Mephiskapheles", and "Skinnerbox" as well as Jazz groups, "Other Dimensions of Music" and the "Mingus Big Band."
	www.epitaph.com /artists/album/60 (887 words)

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