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	Mingus
		The voice of Charles Mingus was much in evidence when the band dedicated to the preservation of his legacy performed at Hancher Auditorium on Saturday, January 20, 2001.
		The Mingus Big Band members, with Herwig at the helm, really "cooked" during their Iowa City performance, and they served up a delightfully rich smorgasbord of Mingus tunes, ranging from the most familiar to the rarely heard.
		Despite the fact that Charles Mingus did not originally intend these tunes for big band, and that many of these players are too young to have played with the late master, this is literally the band of Mingus’ dreams: "Someday I’m going to have me a big band to record with.
	www.public.coe.edu /~wcarson/mingus.htm (1774 words)

	Mingus Big Band :: 2006 :: Toronto Jazz Festival
		The 14-piece Mingus Big Band featured at the Toronto Jazz Festival is based in New York City and gets to pick the very best of local musicians, some 40 in all that rotate through the chairs to keep the momentum.
		A new CD is on the way from the Mingus Big Band, a live recording done in Tokyo.
		As a distinguished member of a band so rich in talent and so capable of traversing Jazz history from Dixieland to free blowing we had to wait until the end to hear his solo.
	thelivemusicreport.com /events/tjf2006/02saturday/mingusBigBand.html (866 words)

	UD Music Reviews - Mingus Big Band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bassist Charles Mingus was the rare jazz musician who put his skills as a composer on par with his enormous abilities as a musician.
		The Mingus Big Band is simply one of the best big bands working on earth.
		Mingus was a man who wrote poetry and an amazing autobiographical work Beneath the Underdog, invented modern jazz bass playing and created ambitious, visionary compositions that were rarely realized in a satisfactory manner.
	desires.com /3.2/Music/Reviews/Docs/band.html (524 words)

	The modern Mingus \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		While all six of the Big Band's albums are on the French label Dreyfus, Sue Mingus is stepping out on her own with "I Am Three," releasing the CD on her new label Sue City.
		Mingus and Max Roach were among the first jazz musicians to found their own label back in the early 1950s when they created Debut, which immediately made its mark when the epochal "Jazz at Massey Hall" album captured the last meeting between bebop legends Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and Roach.
		Sue Mingus founded Sue City after she read an article about bassist Dave Holland leaving ECM to create Dare2 Records "and he mentioned that Mingus was among the first to start his own record company," she said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050421/news_lz1w21mingus.html (1067 words)

	CD Review of Mingus Big Band - Tonight at Noon ... Three of Four Shades of Love on Dreyfus @ jazzreview.com
		Big bands still bring to mind old guys in matching jackets playing anesthetizing arrangements of “Moonlight Serenade” at the VFW hall.
		The Mingus Big Band deftly condenses the 40-minute original piece into a 17-minute arrangement that manages to capture all the sexiness, sultriness and sadness of the original.
		As an historical figure, Mingus often seems a bundle of contradictions, but the man and his passions are clearly visible in his music, even in the titles he chose for his compositions.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=2941 (887 words)

	Mingus Big Band - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mingus Big Band is a jazz band, based in New York City, that specializes in the compositions of the late Charles Mingus.
		The band is managed by his widow, Sue Mingus.
		This article on a United States jazz band is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mingus_Big_Band (280 words)

	Dreyfus Records - Mingus Big Band
		But in 1991, Sue Mingus, the widow of the composer/ arranger/bassist, chose to dream the impossible dream and launched the Mingus Big Band at The Fez underneath the Time Café in the East Village.
		Mingus' compositions are rarely performed by jazz bands, largely because they are so personal and because of their complexity.
		While the Mingus Big Band has made a name for itself in the last decade as jazz's best large ensemble, the Charles Mingus Orchestra is less known outside of its home base in New York.
	www.dreyfusrecords.com /discs_ns.php?a=18&l=0 (1025 words)

	Big Band puts on a fiery tribute to Mingus - The Boston Globe
		Mingus Big Band, ﬁrst set At: the Regattabar, Friday night CAMBRIDGE -- Charles Mingus was a jazz giant, both a master bassist and the widest-ranging composer and bandleader this side of Duke Ellington.
		CAMBRIDGE -- Charles Mingus was a jazz giant, both a master bassist and the widest-ranging composer and bandleader this side of Duke Ellington.
		Then the band, conducted by alto saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, ripped into Mingus's rapid-fire blues ''Boogie Stop Shuffle." Trombonist Frank Lacy, in a rounded, raspy, theatrical voice, sang the theme song from the 1960s TV show ''Spider-Man," which fit perfectly.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2005/09/05/big_band_puts_on_a_fiery_tribute_to_mingus (512 words)

	Mingus Big Band - Live in Tokyo At the Blue Note
		The new Mingus Big Band CD, Live In Tokyo, is cause for both celebration and a look backward towards the life of one of the geniuses of jazz, Charles Mingus.
		Mingus died in 1979, and it had to be a bittersweet evening for his widow, Sue, on the night of this recording, New Year's Eve, 2005, as it was 29 years ago that Charles Mingus had a series of concerts in Japan.
		What makes this band so exciting is their creativity in rearranging both Mingus standards and lesser known works, which makes most any night in concert with them unique as they have so many arrangements, each featuring different soloists on a given night.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=2039 (479 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)

	Charles Mingus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mingus was briefly a member of Ellington's band in the early 1950s, and Mingus's notorious temper reportedly led to his being the only musician personally fired by Ellington (although there are reports that Sidney Bechet was another victim).
		Mingus blamed the Parker mythology for a derivative crop of pretenders to Parker's throne.
		By the mid-1970s, Mingus was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (popularly known as Lou Gehrig's disease), a wastage of the musculature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Mingus (2794 words)

	Amazon.com: The Essential Mingus Big Band: Music: Mingus Big Band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Mingus Big Band, which has celebrated the works of the late Charles Mingus for many years, now compiles all of their BEST recordings into one HUGE CD.
		The Mingus Big Band, formed by aficionando's of the late Mingus and his work, is simply burnin' on this recording.
		This recording brings together the best work of the Mingus Big Band (whom I recently heard LIVE at the Monterey Jazz Festival...they were just as good then as they are on the recording) and it offers a welcome departure from the formal structure of jazz that we have come to regard as the norm.
	www.amazon.com /Essential-Mingus-Big-Band/dp/B00005LN2U (901 words)

	Arts \| Mingus Big Band
		The 14 musicians of this band make music under the watchful eye and ear of Susan Graham Mingus, the great man's widow; her concern is to keep detail and spirit in the music.
		It is thrilling to hear such big music in a small room: the audience immerses itself in this complex, highly emotional music to a degree that is impossible in a concert hall or festival stadium.
		Maybe the Mingus Big Band works particularly well because of the "unfinished" and restless nature of his work: it is still possible to do something new in the idiom of the old.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4473285-110430,00.html (410 words)

	Amazon.com: Blues & Politics: Music: Mingus Big Band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He melded aspects of blues, swing, and bebop with a unique arranging flair (he was a huge fan of Duke Ellington) and a sharp sense of humor in concocting pieces that were sometimes rambunctious and rhythmic, sometimes poignant and brooding.
		The New York-based Mingus Big Band--an outgrowth of the Mingus Dynasty groups that were formed after the artist's death--has, since 1991, purveyed his works with authenticity and vitality; the first-rate Blues & Politics is no exception.
		Mingus' attention to the composition of the form rather than the sound is evident even through the "Band." The journey the album takes is based on politics, though the flatness that that may invoke is quickly dispelled as the music takes shape.
	www.amazon.com /Blues-Politics-Mingus-Big-Band/dp/B00000JWCM (922 words)

	Mingus: The Mingus Bands
		Under the artistic direction of Sue Mingus, the 14-piece Mingus Big Band tours extensively in the United States and abroad, and has nine recordings to its credit, three of which have been nominated for Grammy Awards.
		The Mingus Orchestra was featured on the Grammy nominated CD Tonight At Noon, performing with Elvis Costello, in 2002.
		The 7-piece Mingus Dynasty has joined the family of the Mingus Big Band and The Charles Mingus Orchestra in bringing the great legacy of Mingus composition to audiences around the world.
	www.mingusmingusmingus.com /MingusBands (135 words)

	Iridium Jazz Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Mingus Big Band celebrates the music of the composer and bassist, Charles Mingus, who died in 1979.
		The Mingus Big Band tours extensively in the United States and abroad, and has six recordings to its credit, three of which have been nominated for Grammys.
		Charles Mingus' left behind one of the largest legacies of composition in 20th century American music.
	www.iridiumjazzclub.com /mingus.shtml (514 words)

	Mingus Big Band Roars / Musical legacy lives at sold-out Yoshi's run (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The sonic tapestry was as lush as it was bristling, with woodwinds swirling together in a juicy counterpoint to the brazen razz of trombone and trumpets.
		It is important to remember that for all of the legendary bassist's idiosyncrasies and penchant for compositional complications, Mingus was equally enthralled by mood, emotion and soul.
		Though Charles Mingus died in 1979 of Lou Gehrig's Disease, a few months shy of his 57th birthday, the Mingus Big Band represents a musical legacy that is robust and contemporary.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2001/03/07/mingus.DTL (548 words)

	Mingus' namesake band grooves on the jazzman's musical legacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Mingus Big Band features 14 musicians, but the pool of available players has grown to more than 100 talented and notable performers of all ages.
		While the band plays its regular weekly gig in New York, a touring version of the group arrives in Seattle for a concert tonight at 8 at the Paramount Theatre.
		By coincidence, Costello, a longtime admirer of Mingus' music, also performs at the Paramount this weekend -- on Sunday -- but apparently he won't be in Seattle in time to join the Mingus Big Band.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /pop/87716_mingus20.shtml (876 words)

	CD Review of Mingus Big Band - Tonight At NoonThree Or Four Shades Of Love on Dreyfus @ jazzreview.com
		What this generation of Mingus devotees has come to realize is that we love his musicand his contributions to the language of jazz.
		Mingus' music was as much about visualization as it was about sound.
		Proving itself to be the most notable big band recording today, the Mingus Big Band--not to mention the Charles Mingus Orchestra--has produced a perfectly fitting tribute to the master composer whose compositions are just now being appreciated.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=2873 (660 words)

	The Library of Congress Presents Mingus Big Band
		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.
		Repertory for the band's Library of Congress concert will include Mingus classics --The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife, Fables of Faubus, and The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Part I) -- as well as less-familiar compositions, many arranged by musicians from the band.
		The band's first compact disc, Nostalgia in Times Square, will be released by Dreyfus Records in Europe in June and will be available in the U.S. this summer.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/1993/93-073.html (348 words)

	Mingus Big Band - Biography - AOL Music
		A major expansion on Mingus Dynasty, beginning in 1991 the Mingus Big Band (which often uses more than 20 musicians) has explored the great bassist's music at least once a week.
		The huge group performs some of Mingus' most complex works with spirit, virtuosity, and plenty of color.
		Get Mingus Big Band biography information, download, listen and watch Mingus Big Band music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and use the music search function to find information on other new and established recording artists.
	music.aol.com /artist/mingus-big-band/173963/biography (192 words)

	CLUAS Indie Gig Reviews: The Mingus Big Band live in Vicar Street
		These days, his hugely impressive catalogue of work is kept alive by the Mingus Big Band, a New York based collective who took to the stage at Vicar Street in a rather understated manner.
		Such is the panoramic scope of Mingus' work that the tone of the evening oscillated between soothing and boisterous.
		On the whole the band were quite solid and although the individual show-casing got a little repetitious, the performance was enjoyable.
	www.cluas.com /Music/gigs/mingus.htm (430 words)

	Mingus Big Band has namesake's creativity - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Big bands can lead lengthy lives — some even too long — but the Mingus Big Band shows how an ensemble should stay true to its legacy.
		This month, the band is on the road celebrating what would have been Mingus' 80th birthday on April 22, a new album, and Sue Mingus' book, "Tonight at Noon: A Love Story" (Pantheon).
		The band bore its Balcony name even after the Shadyside club closed, and it tried to make of go of it at the James Street Restaurant on the North Side, Foster's in Oakland and Dowe's on 9th, Downtown.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_64281.html (1105 words)

	Salon \| Sharps and Flats: Mingus Big Band
		BY MICHAEL J. f there were any lingering doubt that Charles Mingus' legacy wouldn't survive, the Mingus Big Band, under the direction of his widow, Sue Mingus, is around to converse with us, to pose questions, to challenge.
		"Que Viva Mingus" is bookended by two exceptional pieces: the epic, mercurial "Cumbia and Jazz Fusion" and the flamenco-inspired "Ysabel's Table Dance." The Big Band's rendering of "Cumbia" is a truncated one -- 17 minutes, down from the original 28 -- but not without the sprawling nuance.
		From the first "movement," the Big Band declares this their own: Trombonist Steve Turre, a veteran of this group, opens with a conch shell solo, whereas the original introduction was an interplay of oboe and bassoon.
	www.salon.com /music/sharps/1998/04/02sharps.html (518 words)

	Artificial Illusions: The Mingus Big Band and Marcus Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The band is based out of New York and has Mingus' widow Sue as the artistic director.
		Mingus always favoured a darker, bass-heavy sound, so there was a lot of focus on the trombones (one of whom also played tuba) and bari sax.
		When a six-person band plays much louder than a 16-person big band, it's a bit much.
	ai.jenandmike.ca /2006/07/mingus-big-band-and-marcus-miller.php (595 words)

	THE MINGUS BIG BAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Mingus Big Band celebrates the vast repertoire of the late, great composer and bassist, Charles Mingus.
		Under the direction of Sue Mingus, the band consists of 14 players from a pool of over 100 of the best musicians on the jazz scene today.
		The Mingus Big Band has played to great critical acclaim, touring extensively throughout the United States and Europe.
	pac.nevada.edu /THE_MINGUS_BIG_BAND.htm (195 words)

	Mingus: Mingus Big Band
		Two, the repertory of Mingus is so vast, varied and unpredictable that it might always be a renewable resource.
		In November 2004, the big band began its Tuesday night residency at Iridium Jazz Club.
		The Mingus Big Band tours extensively in the United States and abroad, and has eight recordings to its credit, four of which have been nominated for Grammys.
	www.mingusmingusmingus.com /MingusBands/BigBand.html (442 words)

	Mingus Big Band :Tonight At Noon
		So-called "ghost" orchestras, the bands of departed leaders who continue to tour and record the music made famous by that particular leader, are generally iffy affairs.
		The bands of Duke Ellington and Count Basie are perhaps the best known of these, and it is questionable whether either contributed much in the way of posthumous insight into the music of their leaders.
		He could write with the rococo influence of New Orleans marching bands or the music of the circus, create voicings that made a six or eight piece group sound like the Duke Ellington Orchestra, emulate the sensuous fury of the flamenco dancer or the terror of the lonely man suddenly confronted with death.
	www.jazzitude.com /bltonightatnoon.htm (1168 words)

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