The Very Best of Charlie Mingus

The Very Best Of Charlie Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.


Biography
One of the most important figures in twentieth century American music, Charles Mingus was a virtuoso bass player, accomplished pianist, bandleader and composer. Born on a military base in Nogales, Arizona in 1922 and raised in Watts, California, his earliest musical influences came from the church-- choir and group singing-- and from "hearing Duke Ellington over the radio when [he] was eight years old." He studied double bass and composition in a formal way (five years with H. Rheinshagen, principal bassist of the New York Philharmonic, and compositional techniques with the legendary Lloyd Reese) while absorbing vernacular music from the great jazz masters, first-hand. His early professional experience, in the 40's, found him touring with bands like Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory and Lionel Hampton.
Eventually he settled in New York where he played and recorded with the leading musicians of the 1950's-- Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Art Tatum and Duke Ellington himself. One of the few bassists to do so, Mingus quickly developed as a leader of musicians. He was also an accomplished pianist who could have made a career playing that instrument. By the mid-50's he had formed his own publishing and recording companies to protect and document his growing repertoire of original music. He also founded the "Jazz Workshop," a group which enabled young composers to have their new works performed in concert and on recordings.

Mingus soon found himself at the forefront of the avant-garde. His recordings bear witness to the extraordinarily creative body of work that followed. They include: Pithecanthropus Erectus, The Clown, Tijuana Moods, Mingus Dynasty, Mingus Ah Um, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, Cumbia and Jazz Fusion, Let My Children Hear Music. He recorded over a hundred albums and wrote over three hundred scores.
Although he wrote his first concert piece, "Half-Mast Inhibition," when he was seventeen years old, it was not recorded until twenty years later by a 22-piece orchestra with Gunther Schuller conducting. It was the presentation of "Revelations" which combined jazz and classical idioms, at the 1955 Brandeis Festival of the Creative Arts, that established him as one of the foremost jazz composers of his day.
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. In the same year his autobiography, Beneath the Underdog, was published by Knopf. In 1972 it appeared in a Bantam paperback and was reissued after his death, in 1980, by Viking/Penguin and again by Pantheon Books, in 1991. In 1972 he also re-signed with Columbia Records. His music was performed frequently by ballet companies, and Alvin Ailey choreographed an hour program called "The Mingus Dances" during a 1972 collaboration with the Robert Joffrey Ballet Company.
He toured extensively throughout Europe, Japan, Canada, South America and the United States until the end of 1977 when he was diagnosed as having a rare nerve disease, Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis. He was confined to a wheelchair, and although he was no longer able to write music on paper or compose at the piano, his last works were sung into a tape recorder.
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Pithecanthropus erectus
Pithecanthropus erectus è un album jazz di Charles Mingus pubblicato nel 1956 dalla Atlantic Records.
Fonte italiano
source English


Content
tracks
01 Pithecanthropus Erectus ... 10:38 ... 24.34 MB
02 Profile of Jackie ... 3:12 ... 7.32 MB
03 Tonight at Noon ... 6:01 ... 13.78 MB
04 Haitian Fight Song ... 12:03 ... 27.57 MB
05 Reincarnation of a Lovebird ... 8:36 ... 19.67 MB
06 Moanin' ... 8:02 ... 18.40 MB
07 Cryin' Blues ... 5:04 ... 11.60 MB
08 Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting ... 5:43 ... 13.10 MB
09 Ecclustiastics ... 6:59 ... 16.00 MB
10 Passions of a Man ... 4:58 ... 11.37 MB
11 Wham Bang Thank you Ma'am ... 4:42 ... 10.77 MB


Personnel: Charles Mingus: Bass, Piano; Doug Watkins: Bass; Jackie McLean, Curtis Porter, John Handy: Alto Saxophone; J.R. Montrose, Booker Irvin: Tenor Saxophone, Roland Kirk; Pepper Adams: Baritone Saxophone; Jimmy Knepper, Willie Dennis: Trombone; Wade Legge, Mal Waldron, Horace Parlan: Piano; Willie Jones, Dannie Richmond: Drums.

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Artist Name : Charlie Mingus
Album Title : The Very Best Of Charles Mingus
Original Release Date: January 2, 2001
Format - Music: MP3 320 kbps
Total Tracks : 11
Disc Number : 1
Total Discs : 1
SIZE: 173 MB
TOTAL TIME: 1:15:17


::->DATI TECNICI E NOTE : joint stereo