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...That tune became the second cut on Mingus Ah Um, an album that its producer feared was “too far ahead of the consumer” such were its weak initial sales, but which went on to become Mingus’s best-selling...
...“As a bass player, Mingus has been such an influential figure on my development,” says Casimir....
...Today, Lilah speaks with Samara about her path: discovering jazz, her thought process as she performs, and how she finds new takes on compositions by greats such as Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus....
...Unhappy with the recording level of his double bass, Mingus overdubbed a more prominent part on the six quintet tracks....
...Drummer Adam Cruz, who spent formative years with the Mingus Big Band and Chick Corea, had moves of his own....
...At one of them, Birdland in midtown Manhattan, she saw many of that era’s greats: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus and Lester Young....
...Uncle John’s Band, his third ECM release, is a welcome return to the flowing modernism and rocky bite that made him a go-to player for the likes of Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and Herbie Hancock earlier...
...Equally at home playing cutting-edge modern jazz or R&B, his credits span two decades and range from the Mingus Big Band and rapper Q-Tip to an upcoming Village Vanguard residency with guitarist Bill Frisell...
...And we were talking a lot about your lyrics over Charles Mingus’s ... Samara Joy . . . “Reincarnation of a Lovebird”. Lilah Raptopoulos . . . “Reincarnation”, yeah, “of a Lovebird”....
...The 1957 piano trio album Mingus Three sets the record straight. The repertoire mixes standards and blues, pianist Hampton Hawes is outstanding and Richmond, already a Mingus stalwart, locks in....
...Later, the trio captured the sensuous emotions and subtle rhythmic changes of Charles Mingus’s “Orange Was the Colour of her Dress, Then Blue Silk”....
...A swath of sideman duties includes the Mingus Big Band — bassist Boris Kozlov has been its MD since 2004 — and their combined leadership dates on the Criss Cross label alone now number 30....
...She brilliantly captures the quizzical, behind-the-beat phrasing of the original with the knockout support of a rhythm section that includes the Mingus Big Band’s Boris Kozlov on bass....
...The American influence remains strong — that of Gil Evans and Charles Mingus is clear....
...The late bass-playing iconoclast Charles Mingus made demands on musicians and audiences alike....
...Davis says he was influenced by jazz bassist Charles Mingus, the music including several improvised passages for the soloist....
...The US influence remained — the then new ideas of Mingus, Coltrane, and Gil Evans’s work with Miles Davis resonate strongly throughout — and old and new generations combined....
...But, fired by the momentous changes in 1960s American jazz — from John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus and Albert Ayler — Westbrook’s writing evolved into a more schematic approach....
...The first unfolds over sensuous R&B, the second over an up-tempo hip-hop groove — both capture the Mingus spirit....
...Charles Mingus, riffing in the corner, is nodding his head on his double bass — whether to the beat or the argument is unclear. It is time to eat. Catherine is ravenous for food and argument....
...He now holds the piano chair of the Mingus Big Band, confirmation that he has reached the upper echelons of New York jazz....
...Charles Mingus’s lovely ballad “Self-Portrait in Three Colors”, played straight, was followed by a romp through Miles Davis’s “Four”....
...There are Eastern flourishes, virtuoso finger-pricking and a loving Charles Mingus cover that would later become part of Pentangle’s repertoire....
...Spread over five CDs, they are the only recordings made by this particular Mingus quintet....
...He had just left Mingus to develop his own career as a band leader....
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