Charles Mingus – ‘Live at Carnegie Hall Deluxe Edition’

"This two-CD/three-LP re-release completely recasts the concert by including the 72 minutes of Mingus Workshop music that preceded the all-star jam. And in many ways it’s much more gripping. This is vintage late-era Mingus – music that’s by turns joyous, ecstatic, furious, and just occasionally tender, as the quintet ricochets between gospel, blues and free jazz..." - LondonJazz

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"Charles Mingus was something else, man, a pure genius. I loved him." - Miles Davis, from Miles: The Autobiography

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Recorded on this day... 62 years ago

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"MINGUS AT CARNEGIE HALL" Deluxe Edition - Order Now!

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"I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into..."

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"Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus." - Charles Mingus

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Remembering Charles Mingus on his 99th Birthday

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Happy 91st Birthday, Sy Johnson!

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Happy Birthday, Sue Mingus!

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Congratulations to everyone who participated in the 13th Annual Charles Mingus Virtual Festival!

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Charles Mingus in LA Magazine / Black History Month Spotlight

Raised in Watts, Charles Mingus (1922- 1979) discovered his love of music in the Black church choirs of his youth. As a young musician he toured with L.A. legend Lionel Hampton and Louis Armstrong before becoming a recording dynamo playing with Miles Davis, Art Tatum, Charlie Parker, and his childhood hero Duke Ellington.

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