Charles Mingus at the Monterey Jazz Festival, September 20, 1964(© Ray Avery/CTSIMAGES) When Sy Johnson, a jazz pianist and arranger, used to visit Charles Mingus at his apartment in the East Village ...

At Antibes could easily be an all-time favorite Charles Mingus recording if he had not produced such extraordinary sessions as Mingus Ah Um (Columbia, 1959), Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus ...

On the bassist and bandleader’s centennial, 10 jazz musicians discuss his achievements and complexities and pick out a pivotal track from his repertoire. By Marcus J. Moore and Giovanni Russonello ...

In the summer of 1939, a 17-year-old bassist named Charles Mingus made a fateful trip to the Bay Area. While already possessed by extraordinary ambition—a racially ambiguous jazz artist drawn to ...

“I’m trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it’s difficult is because I’m changing all the time.” — Charles Mingus More than almost any other great music innovator in or out of jazz, ...

Critic Kevin Whitehead reflects on the legacy of the musician who would have been 100 on April 22, 2022. Mingus died in 1979, leaving behind a catalog of music that reflected his outsized personality.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Jazz musician, composer, and ...

Atlantic Records’ release last Friday of the two-CD set “Mingus at Carnegie Hall” makes available, for the first time, the complete concert that the bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus gave with two ...

Charles Mingus' exhilarating blend of roots and the avant-garde only rarely seems as binary* (see below) as it does on this recording from the 1960 Antibes Jazz Festival. Most often on a Mingus album, ...