12 March 1957: Mingus arrives- at himself
By the mid-fifties, Mingus had a fearsome reputation as a bassist, but I wonder what people thought of him as a composer? We know he’d been writing since he was
Category: Mingus
“East Coasting” by Charles Mingus, 6 Aug 1957
I reckon I discovered Charles Mingus when I was about 16, just a few years after he died. The first album of his I bought was the 1970 “Pithycanthropus Erectus”;
Charles Mingus’s 1964 European tour
Fifty years ago, the Charles Mingus Sextet toured Europe. This tour represented a peak in Mingus’s career. It was a culmination of what he’d been striving for musically, with one
“Mingus Three”: Charles Mingus, Hampton Hawes, Dannie Richmond, 1957
The second Mingus album I ever bought was called “The Wild Bass” but was in fact first released as “Mingus Three”. It’s a seven-track trio session with Richmond on drums