Charles Mingus Charles Mingus completed the 1950s with an astonishing series of releases in 1959 – Blues and Roots, followed by Mingus Ah Um and finally, Mingus Dynasty. He kept up this pace for several years culminating in 1963 with Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus and his masterwork, The Black Saint and The Sinner Woman. […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 58: Still Swinging – Ellington, Hodges, Gonsalves, Carter in the 1960s (1960 – 1966)
Duke Ellington – Max Roach – Charles Mingus Duke Ellington and Benny Carter, whose careers stretched back to the 1920s, continued to be vital musical presences in the 1960s. In this hour we will hear examples of their late career work and that of two veteran Ellingtonians, alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges and tenor saxophonist Paul […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 47: The Experimentalists – Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane (1956 – 1959)
Charles Mingus In his book Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965, David Rosenthal outlines a group of musicians within the hard bop idiom that he identifies as “experimentalists”, describing them as “…consciously trying to expand jazz’s structural and technical boundaries: for instance, pianist Andrew Hill, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane prior to his 1965 […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 36: Bebop Pioneers in the 1950s (1949 – 1960)
Jazz at Massey Hall Bud Powell-p, Charles Mingus-b, Max Roach-d, Dizzy Gillespie-tp, Charlie Parker-as Bebop had its roots in the big bands of the late 1930s and was nurtured in jam sessions during the war and the musician’s strike of the 1940s. By 1950, the prescient Coleman Hawkins, and the pioneers – Charlie Parker, Dizzy […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 30: Jazz on Central Avenue – Bebop in Los Angeles (1945 – 1948)
Wardell Gray – Dexter Gordon Most of the pioneering bebop musicians we have featured in the past several programs were centered in New York – Bird, Dizzy, Monk, Bud Powell, Coleman Hawkins, Fats Navarro, JJ Johnson, Max Roach. While New York may have dominated the modern music scene, it wasn’t the only scene. The wartime […]