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Mingus Big Band Members
Mingus may refer to: * Charles Mingus (1922–1979), jazz composer and double bass player ** Sue Mingus, wife of the jazz composer ** Mingus (Charles Mingus album), ''Mingus'' (Charles Mingus album), 1961 album by Charles Mingus ** Mingus (Joni Mitchell album), ''Mingus'' (Joni Mitchell album), 1979 jazz album by Joni Mitchell with Charles Mingus ** ''Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus'', 1963 album by Charles Mingus * Mingus, Texas, a city * Mingus Mountain, in the Black Hills of Arizona * Mingus Lookout Complex, a fire tower lookout complex in Prescott National Forest, Arizona * Max Mingus, a character in a series of books by British thriller writer Nick Stone (author), Nick Stone * Mingus (supernova), a List of most distant supernovae#Most distant supernovae, distant supernova {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz Double bass, upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author. A major proponent of collective Musical improvisation, improvisation, he is considered one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history,See the 1998 documentary ''Triumph of the Underdog'' with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz greats such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Max Roach, and Eric Dolphy. Mingus's work ranged from advanced bebop and avant-garde jazz with small and midsize jazz ensemble, ensembles to pioneering the post-bop style on seminal recordings like ''Pithecanthropus Erectus (album), Pithecanthropus Erectus'' (1956) and ''Mingus Ah Um'' (1959) and progressive big band experiments such as ''The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady'' (1963). Mingus's compositions continue to be played by contemporary musicians ranging from the repertory bands Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Mingus
Susan Mingus (née Graham, April 2, 1930 – September 24, 2022) was an American record producer and band manager. She was married to jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus, and formed tribute groups to perform his music after his death. She won a Grammy Award in 2011, having earlier received four nominations. Early life Susan Graham was born in Chicago on April 2, 1930. Her father, Louis, was a mathematician and engineer who had aspired to be an opera singer; her mother was a housewife who played the harp and piano. Susan grew up in Milwaukee and attended an all-girls schools. She studied at Smith College, graduating in 1952. She then worked as an editor of the ''International Herald Tribune'' in Paris for two years, before being employed by ''Clipper'', Pan Am's in-flight magazine, in Rome. Career Sue was acting in ''O.K. End Here'' (1963), an experimental film directed by Robert Frank, when she first met Charles Mingus. They had an unofficial marriage ceremony conduct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mingus (Charles Mingus Album)
''Mingus'' is an album by the jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus. The album was recorded in October and November 1960 in New York and released in late 1961 on Nat Hentoff's Candid label. Background At this time Mingus was working regularly with a piano-less quartet featuring Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson and Dannie Richmond, as heard on the ''Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus'' album also recorded in October 1960. The ''Mingus'' album features one track, "Stormy Weather", recorded by the same quartet, plus two tracks recorded by a larger group featuring piano and additional horns. The track "M.D.M." weaves together the themes from three compositions: Duke Ellington's "Main Stem", Thelonious Monk's "Straight, No Chaser" and Mingus's own "Fifty-First Street Blues". The track "Lock 'Em Up" was inspired by a period of treatment that Mingus describes undergoing in his autobiography '' Beneath the Underdog'', at New York's Bellevue psychiatric facility. Track listings Candid r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mingus (Joni Mitchell Album)
''Mingus'' is the tenth studio album by Canadian musician Joni Mitchell. It was released on June 13, 1979, and was her last studio album for Asylum Records. The album is a collaboration between Mitchell and Charles Mingus. It was recorded in the months before and after Mingus' death in January 1979 and is wholly dedicated to him. The album is one of Mitchell's most experimental and jazz-centric works. Mingus originally wrote six compositions ("Joni I-VI") for Mitchell to write lyrics for, and three of these were included on the album. Two other tracks written exclusively by Mitchell are included, alongside a new version of Mingus' standard "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat", featuring lyrics written by Mitchell. In addition to these, five spoken word tracks (denoted as "raps") are dispersed throughout the album. Mitchell is backed on the album by Jaco Pastorius (who had also contributed to Mitchell's two previous albums) on fretless bass, Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Herbie Hancock on electri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
''Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus'' is a studio album by the American jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus which was released on January 9, 1964. Background Mingus collaborated with arranger/orchestrator Bob Hammer to score the music for a large ensemble of brass and saxophones. Most of the compositions on this album had been previously recorded or have since been rerecorded, some under different titles, on other albums: * "II B.S." as "Haitian Fight Song" on '' Plus Max Roach'' and '' The Clown'' * "I X Love" as "Duke's Choice" on ''A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry''.Conversely, Nat Hentoff identifies "Nouroog" as the precursor to "I X Love". * "Celia" on '' East Coasting'' * "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington) on '' Mingus Dynasty'' * "Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul" as "Better Git It in Your Soul" on '' Mingus Ah Um'' (also "Better Git Hit in Your Soul" on '' Mingus at Antibes'') * "Theme for Lester Young" as "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" on ''Mingus Ah Um ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mingus, Texas
Mingus is a city in Palo Pinto County, Texas, United States. The population was 223 at the 2020 census. History In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, Mingus, known as a "wet" town, had a thriving set of liquor stores and bars patronized by those in "dry" areas in Palo Pinto County and other area counties. This era in Mingus history was memorialized in a comedic country song by John Clay and the Lost Austin Band called "Road to Mingus." The lyrics tell of the deaths of three young men from Strawn, Texas, who travel to Mingus for beer, and, coming home in their '39 Ford, try to beat the Katy at a crossing and die when they are struck by the "reckless railroad train." Area residents blamed aggressive law enforcement for the demise of the stores and bars. By the 2000s, the Cossacks Motorcycle Club patronized the remaining commercial establishments in the town. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Climate The climate in this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mingus Mountain
Mingus Mountain () is a mountain located in the U.S. state of Arizona in the Black Hills mountain range. It is located within the Prescott National Forest traversed by State Route 89A approximately midway between Cottonwood and Prescott. The summit can be reached via Forest Service roads that branch off from State Route 89A. From the mountain, there are views of the Verde Valley, Sycamore Canyon Wilderness and the towns of Cottonwood, Jerome, and Clarkdale. The Woodchute Wilderness, north of the summit of 89A, also offers views and hiking trails. There are several National Forest campgrounds in the area and it is the transmitter location for Prescott full-service television station KAZT-TV and several low-power television stations serving Cottonwood, Clarkdale, Camp Verde and Prescott Valley. Mingus Mountain is also the premier flying site of the Arizona Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association. According to the book, ''Roadside History of Arizona'', by Marshall Trimb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mingus Lookout Complex
Mingus Lookout Complex is a fire tower lookout complex atop Mingus Mountain in Prescott National Forest, in Arizona. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ... in 1988. with The fire tower is a Pacific Coast Steel tower built in 1935. It replaced a wooden tower. The tower has a by wooden cab with an overhanging front porch and a gable roof. It was listed on the National Register along with 41 other fire lookout towers in a batch in 1988. References {{Registered Historic Places Towers completed in 1935 Fire lookout towers on the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona National Register of Historic Places in Yavapai County, Arizona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Stone (author)
Nick Stone (born 31 October 1966) is a British thriller writer. Background Stone was born in Cambridge, England, on 31 October 1966. He is of half-Scottish and half-Haitian descent. His father, Norman Stone, was a well-known historian and his mother, Nicole, was a niece of the finance minister in the Haitian government of François Duvalier ("Papa Doc"). Early life and education When he was six months old, Stone was sent to Haiti to live with his grandparents, where he stayed until returning to England in 1970. He returned to Haiti during 1973–1974, in 1982 and in 1995. His grandparents owned an estate in Haiti and some of his relatives worked for the country's dictator, Duvalier. During his visit in 1982 he met Jean Bertrand Aristide, the priest who would become Haiti's first democratically elected president; he has said that he had high hopes for Aristide's term as president but that "he turned out to be Papa Doc without the jokes". He has cited his Haitian experience a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mingus (supernova)
Mingus may refer to: * Charles Mingus (1922–1979), jazz composer and double bass player ** Sue Mingus, wife of the jazz composer ** ''Mingus'' (Charles Mingus album), 1961 album by Charles Mingus ** ''Mingus'' (Joni Mitchell album), 1979 jazz album by Joni Mitchell with Charles Mingus ** ''Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus'', 1963 album by Charles Mingus * Mingus, Texas, a city * Mingus Mountain, in the Black Hills of Arizona * Mingus Lookout Complex Mingus Lookout Complex is a fire tower lookout complex atop Mingus Mountain in Prescott National Forest, in Arizona. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal go ..., a fire tower lookout complex in Prescott National Forest, Arizona * Max Mingus, a character in a series of books by British thriller writer Nick Stone * Mingus (supernova), a distant supernova {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
