Mingus Mingus
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Better Git It In Your Soul
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Author : Krin Gabbard
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2016-02-08
Better Git It In Your Soul written by Krin Gabbard and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-08 with Music categories.
Charles Mingus is one of the most important—and most mythologized—composers and performers in jazz history. Classically trained and of mixed race, he was an outspoken innovator as well as a bandleader, composer, producer, and record-label owner. His vivid autobiography, Beneath the Underdog, has done much to shape the image of Mingus as something of a wild man: idiosyncratic musical genius with a penchant for skirt-chasing and violent outbursts. But, as the autobiography reveals, he was also a hopeless romantic. After exploring the most important events in Mingus’s life, Krin Gabbard takes a careful look at Mingus as a writer as well as a composer and musician. He digs into how and why Mingus chose to do so much self-analysis, how he worked to craft his racial identity in a world that saw him simply as “black,” and how his mental and physical health problems shaped his career. Gabbard sets aside the myth-making and convincingly argues that Charles Mingus created a unique language of emotions—and not just in music. Capturing many essential moments in jazz history anew, Better Git It in Your Soul will fascinate anyone who cares about jazz, African American history, and the artist’s life.
I Know What I Know
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Author : Todd S. Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2006-06-30
I Know What I Know written by Todd S. Jenkins and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-30 with Social Science categories.
From the mid-1940s until his death in 1979, Charles Mingus created an unparalleled body of recorded work, most of which remains available in the 21st century. While there have been several volumes devoted to Mingus's colorful and tumultuous life, this is the first book in the English language to be devoted fully to his music. General jazz fans as well as musicians and music students who would like a better understanding of Mingus's complex, often difficult music, will find a complete, chronologically arranged, listener's guide to all of his legitimate recordings, from the 78s he recorded in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the mid-1940s, through the legendary albums he made for Columbia, Candid, Atlantic, and his own labels. In the process of providing these in-depth examinations, Jenkins corrects common errors and clears away old misconceptions about certain recordings. His approach will illuminate long-obscure aspects of this imposing and incredibly creative man's contributions to the art of jazz. Touching upon Mingus's many innovations as a jazzman, I Know What I Know explores his advancement of the art of bass playing; his assimilations of Ellington and Monk with ideas leaning toward free jazz; his experiments with ensemble dynamics, instrumentation, and extended form; and his working relationships with partners such as Jaki Byard, Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Knepper, and Dannie Richmond. The book provides a broad, informative overview of Mingus's work without veering into technical musical terminology. Readers without an extensive background in music will thus understand and appreciate the analyses provided, and be able to use them to enhance the experience of listening to the brilliant work of this legendary jazz great.
Charles Mingus Songbook
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Author : Charles Mingus
language : en
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date : 2007-06-01
Charles Mingus Songbook written by Charles Mingus and has been published by Hal Leonard Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-01 with Music categories.
(Jazz Play Along). With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and play-along audio, this series makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before! 10 songs: Better Get Hit in Your Soul * Boogie Stop Shuffle * Goodbye Pork Pie Hat * Gunslinging Bird * Jelly Roll * Nostalgia in Times Square * Peggy's Blue Skylight * Pithecanthropus Erectus * Portrait * Slippers.
Myself When I Am Real
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Author : Gene Santoro
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2001-11-29
Myself When I Am Real written by Gene Santoro and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-29 with Music categories.
Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th Century, and ranks with Ives and Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. By temperament, he was a high-strung and sensitive romantic, a towering figure whose tempestuous personal life found powerfully coherent expression in the ever-shifting textures of his music. Now, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro strips away the myths shrouding "Jazz's Angry Man," revealing Mingus as more complex than even his lovers and close friends knew. A pioneering bassist and composer, Mingus redefined jazz's terrain. He penned over 300 works spanning gutbucket gospel, Colombian cumbias, orchestral tone poems, multimedia performance, and chamber jazz. By the time he was 35, his growing body of music won increasing attention as it unfolded into one pioneering musical venture after another, from classical-meets-jazz extended pieces to spoken-word and dramatic performances and television and movie soundtracks. Though critics and musicians debated his musical merits and his personality, by the late 1950s he was widely recognized as a major jazz star, a bellwether whose combined grasp of tradition and feel for change poured his inventive creativity into new musical outlets. But Mingus got headlines less for his art than for his volatile and often provocative behavior, which drew fans who wanted to watch his temper suddenly flare onstage. Impromptu outbursts and speeches formed an integral part of his long-running jazz workshop, modeled partly on dramatic models like Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. Keeping up with the organized chaos of Mingus's art demanded gymnastic improvisational skills and openness from his musicians-which is why some of them called it "the Sweatshop." He hired and fired musicians on the bandstand, attacked a few musicians physically and many more verbally, twice threw Lionel Hampton's drummer off the stage, and routinely harangued chattering audiences, once chasing a table of inattentive patrons out of the FIVE SPOT with a meat cleaver. But the musical and mental challenges this volcanic man set his bands also nurtured deep loyalties. Key sidemen stayed with him for years and even decades. In this biography, Santoro probes the sore spots in Mingus's easily wounded nature that helped make him so explosive: his bullying father, his interracial background, his vulnerability to women and distrust of men, his views of political and social issues, his overwhelming need for love and acceptance. Of black, white, and Asian descent, Mingus made race a central issue in his life as well as a crucial aspect of his music, becoming an outspoken (and often misunderstood) critic of racial injustice. Santoro gives us a vivid portrait of Mingus's development, from the racially mixed Watts where he mingled with artists and writers as well as mobsters, union toughs, and pimps to the artistic ferment of postwar Greenwich Village, where he absorbed and extended the radical improvisation flowing through the work of Allen Ginsberg, Jackson Pollock, and Charlie Parker. Indeed, unlike Most jazz biographers, Santoro examines Mingus's extra-musical influences--from Orson Welles to Langston Hughes, Farwell Taylor, and Timothy Leary--and illuminates his achievement in the broader cultural context it demands. Written in a lively, novelistic style, Myself When I Am Real draws on dozens of new interviews and previously untapped letters and archival materials to explore the intricate connections between this extraordinary man and the extraordinary music he made.
Mingus Speaks
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Author : Charles Mingus
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2013-04
Mingus Speaks written by Charles Mingus and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In-depth interviews, conducted several years before Mingus died, capture the composer's spirit and voice, revealing how he saw himself as composer and performer, how he viewed his peers and predecessors, how he created his extraordinary music, and how he looked at race. Augmented with interviews and commentary by ten close associates--including Mingus's wife Sue, Teo Macero, George Wein, and Sy Johnson.
Charles Mingus Songbook
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Author : Charles Mingus
language : en
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date : 2009-05-01
Charles Mingus Songbook written by Charles Mingus and has been published by Hal Leonard Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-01 with Music categories.
(Easy Piano Personality). 17 tunes from this master composer and bassist arranged for easy piano solo: Better Get Hit in Your Soul * Boogie Stop Shuffle * Celia * Chair in the Sky * Diane (Alice's Wonderland) * Duke Ellington's Sound of Love * Goodbye Pork Pie Hat * Hora Decubitus * Invisible Lady * Jelly Roll * Noddin' Ya Head Blues * Nostalgia in Times Square * Peggy's Blue Skylight * Portrait * Song with Orange * Sue's Changes * Sweet Sucker Dance.
Mingus Mingus
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Author : Janet Coleman
language : en
Publisher: Berkeley : Creative Arts Book Company
Release Date : 1989
Mingus Mingus written by Janet Coleman and has been published by Berkeley : Creative Arts Book Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Charles Mingus was one of the greatest talents in the jazz world, as a bassist, bandleader, and composer. Mingus comes to life again through these two memoirs written by two of his friends. "This book is a breezy but heartfelt tribute to an arascible talent, a collection as passionate and unruly as its subject...funny, respectful and revealing." - The New York Times Book Review
Charles Mingus Composition Versus Improvisation
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Author : Donatello D'Attoma
language : it
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-04-29
Charles Mingus Composition Versus Improvisation written by Donatello D'Attoma and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-29 with Education categories.
Donatello D'Attoma, organista, musicologo e pianista con studi nell'ambito del jazz e dei nuovi linguaggi musicali, compila un lavoro di analisi sulla musica di Charles Mingus e sul processo improvvisativo come fenomeno narrativo e culturale analizzato attraverso lo strumento della trascrizione. Il libro include le trascrizioni degli assoli di contrabbasso di ""Fables of Faubus,"" Original Fables of Faubus e di ""Bass-ically speaking""
Mingus A Critical Biography
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Author : Brian Priestley
language : en
Publisher: London : Quartet Books
Release Date : 1982
Mingus A Critical Biography written by Brian Priestley and has been published by London : Quartet Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Cellists categories.
"It would be no exaggeration to call Charles Mingus the greatest bass player in the history of jazz; indeed, some might even regard it as understatement, for the hurricane power of his work as a compos"
Beneath The Underdog
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Author : Charles Mingus
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 1998-10-15
Beneath The Underdog written by Charles Mingus and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-10-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated, wild, funny, demonic, anguished, shocking and profoundly moving memoir, is the greatest autobiography ever written by a jazz musician. It tells of his God-haunted childhood in Watts during the 1920s and 1930s; his outcast adolescent years; his apprenticeship, not only with jazzmen but also with pimps, hookers, junkies, and hoodlums; and his golden years in New York City with such legendary figures as Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. Here is Mingus in his own words, from shabby roadhouses to fabulous estates, from the psychiatric wards of Bellevue to worlds of mysticism and solitude, but for all his travels never straying too far, always returning to music.