Demo · Charles Mingus

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Charles Mingus

BassistComposerBandleaderDouble bassPianoNew York, USA

Charles Mingus

Bassist, composer, bandleader. The workshop, the fables, the whole big noise.

Records

Appearances

  1. Village Vanguard, New York

    Mingus Ah Um, complete

    Tickets
  2. The Jazz Gallery, New York

    Jazz Workshop night

  3. The Town Hall, New York

    Epitaph, with a big band

    Tickets

Film

Press

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that is creativity.”

Charles MingusMainliner, July 1977

“In my music, 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 Mingusto Nat Hentoff, in California Rock, California Sound, 1979

“Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise.”

Charles MingusLiner notes, Let My Children Hear Music, 1971

Booking

Concerts and workshops

For tribute concerts, big band nights and workshops on his music.