• Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on Columbia Records in May 1960. It is a companion album to his 1959 record...
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  • 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. Mingus...
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    bands Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty, and Mingus Orchestra, to the high school students who play the charts and compete in the Charles Mingus High School...
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  • Mingus Ah Um is a studio album by American jazz musician Charles Mingus which was released in October 1959 by Columbia Records. It was his first album...
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  • Mingus Dynasty was an American jazz ensemble formed in 1979, just after the death of Charles Mingus, which featured many musicians Mingus recorded or...
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  • Charles Mingus. It was managed by his widow, Sue Mingus, along with the Mingus Orchestra and Mingus Dynasty. In addition to its weekly Monday night appearance...
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  • bandleader, the American jazz bassist Charles Mingus released 51 albums between 1949 and 1977; as a sideman, Mingus appeared on a total of 34 albums. Four albums...
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    Dannie Richmond (category Mingus Dynasty (band) members)
    death when Richmond became the first musical director of the group Mingus Dynasty in 1980. He died of a heart attack in Harlem on March 16, 1988, at the...
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  • "God Must Be a Boogie Man" from Mingus by Joni Mitchell, Asylum Records, 1979. Sample from Mingus Asylum Records/Elektra Entertainment Group, 1979 Problems...
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  • Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus is an album by the jazz double bassist and composer Charles Mingus, recorded in October 1960 and released in December...
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  • Mingus' 1959 Mingus Dynasty sessions and included on reissues of that album as a bonus track titled "Strollin'". Though never a major part of Mingus’...
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  • Epitaph is a composition by jazz musician Charles Mingus. It is 4,235 measures long, takes more than two hours to perform, and was only completely discovered...
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  • bassist and composer Charles Mingus, released in April 1962 by Atlantic Records. It was recorded in 1961, and features Mingus (usually known to play bass)...
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  • 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...
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    John Handy (category Mingus Dynasty (band) members)
    1976) With Charles Mingus Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (United Artists, 1959) Mingus Ah Um (Columbia, 1959) Mingus Dynasty (Columbia, 1959) Blues...
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    Jimmy Knepper (category Mingus Big Band members)
    Mingus' last albums. Following Mingus' death, and the death of the first Mingus Dynasty bandleader, drummer Dannie Richmond, Knepper led the Mingus Dynasty...
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    Don Pullen (category Mingus Dynasty (band) members)
    the last great Mingus group. Being part of the Mingus group and appearing at many concerts and on three Mingus studio recordings, Mingus Moves (1973),...
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  • The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (category Charles Mingus albums)
    The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is a studio album by Charles Mingus. It was recorded on January 20, 1963, and released in July of that year by Impulse...
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    Clifford Jordan (category Mingus Dynasty (band) members)
    1964 [1980]) Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (Fantasy, 1964) With Mingus Dynasty Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 1 (Soul Note, 1988)...
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  • The Clown (album) (category Charles Mingus albums)
    The Clown is a studio album by the jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus. It was released in September 1957 through Atlantic Records. The recording...
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    David Keith Murray (born February 19, 1955) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer who performs mostly on tenor and bass clarinet. He has recorded...
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    Joe Farrell (category Mingus Dynasty (band) members)
    Sophisticated Funk (Chess, 1976) With Charles Mingus Pre-Bird (aka Mingus Revisited) (Mercury, 1960) With Mingus Dynasty Chair in the Sky (Elektra, 1979) Live...
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  • Composed by Mingus is the autobiography of jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus. It was first published in 1971, by Alfred A. Knopf. Mingus worked on...
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    Jon Faddis (category Mingus Dynasty (band) members)
    With Charles Mingus Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (Columbia, 1972) Mingus at Carnegie Hall (Atlantic, 1974) With Mingus Dynasty Live at the Theatre...
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  • Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968 is a 1968 American documentary film directed by Thomas Reichman (1944-1975) that follows the later life of jazz musician Charles...
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    basement of one of his Blue Smoke restaurants. The Mingus Big Band, the Mingus Orchestra, and Mingus Dynasty rotated every Monday night as the club's de facto...
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  • Mingus Plays Piano is a 1964 solo jazz album by Charles Mingus. The album is notable for Mingus's departure from his usual role as composer and double-bassist...
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    Jaki Byard (category Mingus Dynasty (band) members)
    Charles Mingus. He recorded extensively with Mingus in the period 1962–64 (including on the important albums released by Impulse! Records – Mingus Mingus Mingus...
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  • Changes One is an album by the jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus, released in 1975. This track is dedicated to the Attica Prison Riots of 1971 and...
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  • The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus released on the Bethlehem label. The album contains tracks...
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