The jazz musician Charles Mingus played which instrument?
"as a solo instrument in modern jazz performances and recordings. Composer and double bassist Charles Mingus gave the oboe a brief but prominent role (played by Dick Hafer) in his composition ""I.X. Love"" on the 1963 album ""Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus"". Marshall Allen occasionally played an oboe with Sun Ra. With the birth of jazz fusion in the late 1960s, and its continuous development through the following decade, the oboe became somewhat more prominent, replacing on some occasions the saxophone as the focal point. The oboe was used with great success by the Welsh multi-instrumentalist Karl Jenkins in his"
"Charles Mingus With Teddy Charles With The Three Playmates With Eddie ""Lockjaw"" Davis With Oliver Nelson With Gene Ammons With Jimmy Forrest With Etta Jones With Jimmy Smith With Clark Terry With Frank Wess With Bill Dixon With Bobby Timmons With The Jazz Composer's Orchestra With Melvin Van Peebles George Barrow (musician) George Barrow (21 September 1921 – 20 March 2013) was an American jazz saxophonist who played both tenor and baritone saxes. Self-taught on the saxophone, flute and clarinet, by the mid-1950s, he was playing in different line-ups led by Charles Mingus, including the Quintet (with Eddie Bert, Mal"
"instruments, including the electric celeste, Hammond B-3, bass marimba, harp, and timpani. As result, Sun Ra proved to be one of the first free jazz musicians to explore electronic instrumentation, as well as displaying an interest in timbral possibilities through his use of progressive and unconventional instrumentation in his compositions. Charles Mingus's albums ""The Clown"" and ""Tijuana Moods"" were free jazz. The title song of ""Pithecanthropus Erectus"" contained one improvised section in a style unrelated to the song's melody or chord structure. His contributions were primarily in his efforts to bring back collective improvisation in a music scene that had"
"including the track ""Vasserlean."" The track listing was: Mingus (Charles Mingus album) Mingus is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus. The album was recorded in October and November 1960 in New York for Nat Hentoff's Candid label. 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 November 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."
"Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus is a 1963 album by American jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus. Mingus collaborated with arranger/orchestrator Bob Hammer to score the music for a large ensemble of brass and saxophones. A reviewer of Sputnik Music wrote ""On a broader, more general level, Mingus x5 feels particularly sensual. There is about a 50–50 split between songs that are played as ballads, or at least slower swings, and songs that are played much faster, yet, the most dominant and memorable songs are the ones that take their time like ""Mood Indigo"" and"
"Mingus (Charles Mingus album) Mingus is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus. The album was recorded in October and November 1960 in New York for Nat Hentoff's Candid label. 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 November 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"
"find a beat that's in the air, and just take it out of the air when we want it"". Hentoff concludes, ""For once, in these sessions, ""everyone"" in a Mingus unit reached—and maintained—that level of daring and that power to make their instruments become extensions of ""themselves"""". The album is part of ""The Penguin Guide to Jazz"" 's ""Core Collection."" Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, recorded in 1960 and released in 1961. The quartet of Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson and Dannie Richmond constituted Mingus's"
"George Adams (musician) George Rufus Adams (April 29, 1940 Covington, Georgia – November 14, 1992 New York City) was an American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone, flute and bass clarinet. He is best known for his work with Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Roy Haynes and in the quartet he co-led with pianist Don Pullen, featuring bassist Cameron Brown and drummer Dannie Richmond. He was also known for his idiosyncratic singing. George Adams was born in Covington, Georgia on April 29, 1940. He first started playing piano at the age of eleven and switched to tenor saxophone in high school."
"Mingus Moves Mingus Moves is a 1973 (see 1973 in music) album by jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus. ""Mingus Moves"" (Atlantic SD 1653) is one of the late works of jazz bassist, composer, and bandleader Charles Mingus. He hired three new musicians for the recording: Don Pullen, piano; Ronald Hampton, trumpet; and George Adams, tenor saxophone. Drummer Dannie Richmond, a stalwart of Mingus's bands in the 1950s and '60s, rejoined the band on the first day of recording after not working with the bassist for several years. The album, although not generally regarded as one of Mingus's best, does"
"even though he said the electric guitars were out of place. All compositions by Charles Mingus. Three or Four Shades of Blues Three or Four Shades of Blues is a studio album by American jazz bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus. It was recorded in sessions held on March 9 and 11, 1977 at New York City's Atlantic Studios and March 29 at the Record Plant in Los Angeles. The album features two new versions of Mingus' ""standards"" and three new compositions performed by large ensembles featuring saxophonists Ricky Ford, George Coleman, and Sonny Fortune, pianist Jimmy Rowles, guitarists Larry Coryell,"
"Three or Four Shades of Blues Three or Four Shades of Blues is a studio album by American jazz bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus. It was recorded in sessions held on March 9 and 11, 1977 at New York City's Atlantic Studios and March 29 at the Record Plant in Los Angeles. The album features two new versions of Mingus' ""standards"" and three new compositions performed by large ensembles featuring saxophonists Ricky Ford, George Coleman, and Sonny Fortune, pianist Jimmy Rowles, guitarists Larry Coryell, Philip Catherine and John Scofield, bassists Ron Carter and George Mraz, trumpeter Jack Walrath, and drummer"
"Mingus Three Mingus Three (also referred to as Trio) is an album by American bassist, composer and bandleader Charles Mingus with pianist Hampton Hawes and drummer Dannie Richmond which was recorded in 1957 and first released on the Jubilee label. The Allmusic review stated, ""Most often heard in large ensembles and rarely in a trio context, Charles Mingus joined forces with pianist Hampton Hawes for this 1957 studio date. It features four standards, two originals by the bassist, and a jam by the group credited to Hawes. While there's nothing particularly arresting or startling about the date, the relationship between"
"the cataloging of Mingus compositions, which were then donated to the Music Division of the New York Public Library for public use. In 1993, The Library of Congress acquired Mingus's collected papers—including scores, sound recordings, correspondence and photos—in what they described as ""the most important acquisition of a manuscript collection relating to jazz in the Library's history"". Considering the number of compositions that Charles Mingus wrote, his works have not been recorded as often as comparable jazz composers. The only Mingus tribute albums recorded during his lifetime were baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams's album, ""Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie"
"era, and free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, produced several influential bassists. Charles Mingus (1922–1979), who was also a composer and bandleader, produced music that fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz, and classical music. Free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden (1937–2014) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman, and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group. Eddie Gómez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing. Fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke"
"Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, recorded in 1960 and released in 1961. The quartet of Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson and Dannie Richmond constituted Mingus's core working band at the time, and had been performing the material on this album for weeks at The Showplace in New York. To recreate this atmosphere, Mingus introduces the songs as if he were speaking to the audience, even admonishing them to not applaud or rattle their glasses. The album was recorded in October 1960 in New York for"
"Charles Mingus"" Charles Mingus with Orchestra Charles Mingus with Orchestra is an album by American bassist, composer and bandleader Charles Mingus which was recorded in Japan in 1971 and first released on the Japanese Columbia label. The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden stated, ""This Charles Mingus session is a bit of an oddity, in that he is heard with a Japanese big band, Toshiyuki Miyama & His New Herd Orchestra, which augmented his small group... the Japanese brass and rhythm sections sound a bit rough in the ensemble passages. Far from an essential date in Charles Mingus' vast discography"". ""All"
"cello was not yet accepted as a jazz instrument. Despite this, Mingus was still attached to the cello; as he studied bass with Red Callender in the late 1930s, Callender even commented that the cello was still Mingus's main instrument. In ""Beneath the Underdog"", Mingus states that he did not actually start learning bass until Buddy Collette accepted him into his swing band under the stipulation that he be the band's bass player. Due to a poor education, the young Mingus could not read musical notation quickly enough to join the local youth orchestra. This had a serious impact on"
"His Final Work His Final Work is an album credited to Charles Mingus, released in 1977. ""His Final Work"" is a reissue of ""Lionel Hampton Presents Charles Mingus"", released in 1977, which was also reissued as ""The Music of Charles Mingus"" and credited to Lionel Hampton. ""His Final Work"" comprises the final recording session that Mingus played an instrument on. Charles Mingus was unique. His influences were eclectic, ranging from New Orleans jazz through swing, bop and Latin to modern classical and avant-garde. Although his playing was strong and impressive, it's his writing and approach to making music that put"
"electrophonic trumpet, and continued using synthesizers and electronic keyboards. The string quartet, a mainstay since 1971, remained alongside the brass. He also began playing two new instruments, the superbone and the firebird, which were a combination valve-slide trombone and trumpet, respectively. Both were also played by Maynard Ferguson. With Maynard Ferguson With Charles Mingus With George Russell With Frank Zappa With various artists Don Ellis Donald Johnson Ellis (July 25, 1934 – December 17, 1978) was an American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for his extensive musical experimentation, particularly in the area of time signatures."
"""Minor Intrusion"" and ""Thrice Upon a Time"" demonstrate the synergy between Mingus and his players, and display his compositional skills"". The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus released on the Bethlehem label. The album is a compilation of tracks originally released by Period Records as two 10-inch LP's entitled Jazzical Moods and co-credited to John LaPorta. The Allmusic review by Heather Phares awarded the album 3 stars stating ""These 1954 Period Records sessions include the work of Thad Jones on trumpet and John LaPorta on"
"Additional recordings at Electric Lady Studios, New York by Henry Lewy and Jerry Solomon<br> Mingus (Joni Mitchell album) Mingus is the tenth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, and a collaboration with composer and jazz musician Charles Mingus. Recorded in the months before his death, it would be Mingus's final musical project; the album is wholly dedicated to him. ""Mingus"" was released on June 13, 1979. The album is quite experimental, featuring minimalist jazz, over-plucked, buzzing acoustic guitars, and even wolves howling through ""The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey"". All of the lyrics are by Mitchell, while the music"
"The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus released on the Bethlehem label. The album is a compilation of tracks originally released by Period Records as two 10-inch LP's entitled Jazzical Moods and co-credited to John LaPorta. The Allmusic review by Heather Phares awarded the album 3 stars stating ""These 1954 Period Records sessions include the work of Thad Jones on trumpet and John LaPorta on clarinet and alto sax, combine old and new forms of classical and jazz for a cool jazz sound. Tracks like"
"member of the band that played ""Epitaph"" by Charles Mingus. With Phalanx With Gil Evans With Craig Harris With Roy Haynes With Cecil McBee With Charles Mingus With New York Unit With Don Pullen With James Blood Ulmer With McCoy Tyner George Adams (musician) George Rufus Adams (April 29, 1940 Covington, Georgia – November 14, 1992 New York City) was an American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone, flute and bass clarinet. He is best known for his work with Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Roy Haynes and in the quartet he co-led with pianist Don Pullen, featuring bassist Cameron Brown"
"some of these interpretations are, they were not only sanctioned by, but delighted in by the composer"". All compositions by Charles Mingus. Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus, is an album by baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams featuring Quintet and Octet performances of Charles Mingus' compositions which was recorded in 1963 and originally released on the Motown subsidiary label, Workshop Jazz. ""The Penguin Guide to Jazz"" states ""Adams led this date with his usual no-nonsense authority ... A solid jazz record"". The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states ""This is one"
"Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus, is an album by baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams featuring Quintet and Octet performances of Charles Mingus' compositions which was recorded in 1963 and originally released on the Motown subsidiary label, Workshop Jazz. ""The Penguin Guide to Jazz"" states ""Adams led this date with his usual no-nonsense authority ... A solid jazz record"". The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states ""This is one of those must-own recordings for fans of Adams; but it is also for those who revere Mingus' work, because, as radical as"
"Song Go Out of My Heart"". ""All compositions by Charles Mingus, except where indicated"" Mingus Revisited Mingus Revisited (originally released as Pre-Bird in 1961) is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus consisting of music that was composed before Mingus first heard Charlie Parker, hence the ""Pre-Bird"" title. The music is scored for various sized large jazz ensembles and features many soloists prominent at the time of recording. The album includes two tracks which are contrapuntal arrangements of two swing era pieces, whereby ""Take the ""A"" Train"" (left channel) is paired with a simultaneous ""Exactly Like You"" (right"
"Charles Mingus with Orchestra Charles Mingus with Orchestra is an album by American bassist, composer and bandleader Charles Mingus which was recorded in Japan in 1971 and first released on the Japanese Columbia label. The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden stated, ""This Charles Mingus session is a bit of an oddity, in that he is heard with a Japanese big band, Toshiyuki Miyama & His New Herd Orchestra, which augmented his small group... the Japanese brass and rhythm sections sound a bit rough in the ensemble passages. Far from an essential date in Charles Mingus' vast discography"". ""All compositions by"
"Mingus Revisited Mingus Revisited (originally released as Pre-Bird in 1961) is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus consisting of music that was composed before Mingus first heard Charlie Parker, hence the ""Pre-Bird"" title. The music is scored for various sized large jazz ensembles and features many soloists prominent at the time of recording. The album includes two tracks which are contrapuntal arrangements of two swing era pieces, whereby ""Take the ""A"" Train"" (left channel) is paired with a simultaneous ""Exactly Like You"" (right channel), and likewise ""Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me"" with ""I Let a"
"in 1957. Among his credits with Mingus is ""Tijuana Moods"". On ""East Coasting"", Shaw used a Harmon mute, although he was initially wary of using it, given its association with the sound of Miles Davis. Later in 1957 he destroyed his instrument and quit music over a fight with Mingus. He did not return to playing until 1962, after which time he formed his own ensemble. He retired again in 1964 and returned to music once more in 1968. He died in Los Angeles on August 17, 1973. With Charles Mingus Source: Clarence Shaw Clarence Eugene Shaw, sometimes credited as"
"Dannie Richmond Charles Daniel Richmond (December 15, 1931 – March 15, 1988) was an American jazz drummer who is best known for his work with Charles Mingus. He also worked with Joe Cocker, Elton John and Mark-Almond. Richmond was born in New York City and started playing tenor saxophone at the age of thirteen; he went on to play R&B with the Paul Williams band in 1955. His career took off when he took up the drums, in his early twenties, through the formation of what was to be a 21-year association with Charles Mingus. Mingus biographer Brian Priestley writes"
"Booker Ervin Booker Telleferro Ervin II (October 31, 1930 – August 31, 1970) was an American tenor saxophone player. His tenor playing was characterised by a strong, tough sound and blues/gospel phrasing. He is best known for his association with bassist Charles Mingus. Ervin was born in Denison, Texas. He first learned to play trombone at a young age from his father, who played the instrument with Buddy Tate. After leaving school, Ervin joined the United States Air Force, stationed in Okinawa, during which time he taught himself tenor saxophone. After completing his service in 1953, he studied at Berklee"
"1968 documentary film """", directed by Thomas Reichman. The film also features Mingus performing in clubs and in the apartment, firing a .410 shotgun indoors, composing at the piano, playing with and taking care of his young daughter Caroline, and discussing love, art, politics, and the music school he had hoped to create. Charles Mingus' music is currently being performed and reinterpreted by the Mingus Big Band, which in October 2008 began playing every Monday at Jazz Standard in New York City, and often tours the rest of the U.S. and Europe. The Mingus Big Band, the Mingus Orchestra, and"
"the greatest achievements in orchestration by any composer in jazz history."" The album was also unique in that Mingus asked his psychotherapist, Dr. Edmund Pollock, to provide notes for the record. Mingus also released ""Mingus Plays Piano"", an unaccompanied album featuring some fully improvised pieces, in 1963. In addition, 1963 saw the release of ""Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus"", an album praised by critic Nat Hentoff. In 1964 Mingus put together one of his best-known groups, a sextet including Dannie Richmond, Jaki Byard, Eric Dolphy, trumpeter Johnny Coles, and tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan. The group was recorded frequently during its"