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Composer Charles Mingus' music will be played at free 2-day festival
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
It took 31 years after his death for the world to catch up with musician, composer and big-band leader Charles Mingus, his widow said.
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Mingus Tributes: Normand Guilbeault and Dok Wallach
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/06/2010
Normand Guilbeault Ensemble Hommage a Mingus: Live at Upstairs 2008 Ambiances Magnetiques 2009 Dok Wallach Live in Lisbon Jazzwerkstatt 2009 It's common, although not common enough, for the great bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus to be granted revered composer status in the jazz canon. The efforts of his widow Sue Mingus have kept the man's name alive and music vital in the 30 years since his death...
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Jazz Fest Approaches!
local Cut (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
We haven’t talked about this yet, and I feel as though we should. Two years ago, Portland wasn’t even sure if it would have a Portland Jazz Festival. This year, once again, the fest looks awesome. And here are a few reasons we’re excited about it: 1. It’s pretty cheap. Feeling the pinch of the recession and [...] Related posts: PDX Fest Proves That Jazz Is Not Dead In an era...
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Mosaic Records: A Label Profile and Interview
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
[This interview was originally published in July 2000.] Founded in 1983, Mosaic Records continues to set the standards as one of the finest reissue companies on the scene. Their definitive boxed sets have culled the vaults of such labels as Blue Note, Pacific Jazz, Capitol, CBS, Verve, Roulette, Decca, Atlantic, and Reprise. Some of the artists to have been represented by these luxury sets have included...
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Upcoming New Jazz Releases - February 9, 2010
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
Abbey Lincoln - Through The Years (UMGD/HIP-O ) Abdullah Ibrahim - Bombella (Sunny Side ) Anita O'Day - All Sad Young Men (Universal ) Anita O'Day - Swings Cole Porter Rogers (Universal Japan/Zoom ) Antoinette Montague - Behind The Smile (Igv ) Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Art Blakey!! Jazz Messengers!! (Analogue Productions ) Barb Jungr - Men I Love:New American Songbook (Indie Europe/Zoom...
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Jazz this week: Dianne Reeves & Peter Martin, Lou Donaldson, FLOW, St. Louis Musicians for Haiti, and more
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
It's looking like a very good weekend of live music in St. Louis, with a number of events of interest to fans of jazz and creative music. Let's go to the highlights, presented in chronological order: Things get started tonight with the veteran saxophonist Lou Donaldson ( pictured ), who's back in town to perform at Jazz at the Bistro through Saturday. For more on Donaldson, see this video post from...
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FESTIVAL/CRUISE: The 2010 University of Michigan Jazz Festival "Charles Mingus Day" February 13th at the Power Center for the Performing Arts in Ann Arbor, Michigan
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
The 2010 University Of Michigan Jazz Festival "Charles Mingus Day" will take place February 13th at 7:30p.m. at the Power Center for the Performing Arts in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The festival announced today that Congressman John Conyers Jr. would receive the first, "University of Michigan John Conyers Jr. Jazz Advocacy Award". This award is named in his honor and serves as recognition...
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Tim Price on the music of Charlie Mariano- Rico Reeds blog
Casa Valdez Studios (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
Hello again, Tim Price here for Rico Reeds. I thought I might discuss some unique and important music played by Charlie Mariano and friends. The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady--- Charles Mingus's 1963 recording was wake-up call to jazz- - a lesson in alto saxophone expression by Charlie Mariano. Even so, today, in listening to that, one wonders why Mariano was not given his proper place in jazz he...
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EDUCATION: Charles Mingus Festival Highlights Include Historic High School Band Competition
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC and LET MY CHILDREN HEAR MUSIC:THE CHARLES MINGUS INSTITUTE announce 2nd Annual CHARLES MINGUS FESTIVAL Saturday and Sunday, February13 and 14 in New York City SUE MINGUS and JUSTIN DICIOCCIO, Producers The music and legacy of Charles Mingus will be returning to Manhattan School of Music on Saturday, February 13 and Sunday, February 14, when MSM collaborates with Let My Children...
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Amazon Lists 'the Best' Jazz of All Time...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
Amazon : 1. The Shape Of Jazz To Come by Ornette Coleman 2. A Love Supreme by John Coltrane 3. Bird And Diz by Dizzy Gillespie 4. Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis 5. Ella and Louis by Ella Fitzgerald 6. Getz/Gilberto by João Gilberto 7. Concert By The Sea by Erroll Garner 8. The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus 9. Speak No Evil by Wayne Shorter 10. Straight, No Chaser by Thelonious...
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Upcoming New Jazz Releases - February 2, 2010
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Art Blakey!! Jazz Messengers!! (Analogue Productions ) Barry Finnerty - Blues For Trane (Pony ) Brian Smith - Rendezvous (Fone ) Carbon / Elliott Sharp - Void Coordinates (Phantom ) Charles Mingus - Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (Analogue Productions ) Chick Corea - Return To Forever (Pid ) Coleman Hawkins - Wrapped Tight (Analogue Prod. ) Coleman Hawkins -...
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Nu-Art Series matinees to feature St. Louis musicians interpreting famous jazz composers
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 01/26/2010
The Nu-Art Series has announced a new series of weekend matinees presenting St. Louis musicians performing their own work and the music of a famous jazz composer. "The Jazz Composers Series: Re-Arrangements & Nu-Compositions" will begin Saturday, February 6 with a concert featuring bassist Darrell Mixon's quartet and the music of Charles Mingus and continue each weekend until April 17....
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Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am
Damn Fine Day (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
Seriously. How can you not love a song called “Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am”? A decade before David Bowie made it rock & roll vernacular; Charles Mingus featured a track named for a phrase he attributed to Max Roach on a classic album whose other song titles include “Eat That Chicken” and “Oh Lord, Don’t [...]
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Keith Richards does Jimmy Reed (repost)
TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
Lighting up in '66 Explaining to Ian Stewart what Andrew Oldman meant by "too ugly" (notice the difference in the size of their heads). Straps were shorter in the 60's. Counting down the seconds until a riot starts. Pinned eyes and wrapped head, '72. Making a D chord, backstage, 1969. I'm re-posting these Jimmy Reed impersonations done by the Rolling Stones sans Mick Jagger in an L.A. studio...
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Charles Mingus Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961 download mp3
angietate2009 | 10/29/2009
Charles Mingus Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961 >>>> Download Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961 <<<< artist: Charles Mingus album: Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961 Tracklist: 1 Pithecanthropus Erectus mp3 2 A Foggy Day mp3 3 Love Chant mp3 4 Profile of Jackie mp3 5 Laura mp3 6 When Your Lover Has Gone mp3 7 Just One of Those Things mp3 8 Blue Greens mp3 9 The Clown mp3 10 Passions...