Charles Mingus

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Charles Mingus

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Charles Mingus, Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and human rights activist.
Charles Mingus was born in Nogales, Arizona. He was raised largely in the Watts location of Los Angeles, California. His mother's paternal heritage was Chinese and English, while historical records indicate that his father was the illegitimate offspring of a black farmhand and his Swedish employer's white granddaughter,

His mother allowed only church-related music in their home, but Mingus developed an early enjoy for jazz, specially the music of Duke Ellington. He studied trombone and later cello. A lot of the cello technique he learned was applicable to double bass when he took up the instrument in high school. He studied five years with H. Rheinshagen, principal bassist of the New York Philharmonic, and compositional strategies with Lloyd Reese,

In addition to his musical and intellectual proliferation, Mingus goes into wonderful detail about his maybe overstated sexual exploits. He claims to have had over 31 affairs over the course of his life (including 26 prostitutes in 1 sitting). This does not include any of his five wives (he claims to have been married to two of them simultaneously). In addition, he asserts that he held a brief career as a pimp. This has by no means been confirmed.

Mingus's autobiography also serves as an insight into his psyche, as nicely as his attitudes about race and society.[Autobiographic accounts of abuse at the hands of his father from an early age, being bullied as a child, his removal from a white musician's union, and grappling with disapproval whilst married to white women and other examples of the hardship and prejudice

As respected as Mingus was for his musical talents, he was often feared for his occasional violent onstage temper, which was at times directed at members of his band, and other times aimed at the audience. He was physically large, prone to obesity (especially in his later years), and was by all accounts usually intimidating and frightening when expressing anger or displeasure. Mingus was prone to clinical depression. He tended to have brief periods of extreme creative activity, intermixed with fairly lengthy periods of greatly decreased output.

When confronted with a nightclub audience talking and clinking ice in their glasses while he performed, Mingus stopped his band and loudly chastised the audience, stating "Isaac Stern doesn't have to put up with this sh& ampHe when played a prank on a comparable group of nightclub chatterers by silencing his band for many seconds, permitting the loud audience members to be clearly heard, then continuing as the rest of the audience snickered at the oblivious ,

Guitarist and singer Jackie Paris was a very first-hand witness to Mingus's irascibility. Paris recalls his time in the Jazz Workshop: He chased everybody off the stand except [drummer] Paul Motian and me... The three of us just wailed on the blues for about an hour and a half before he called the other cats back
On October 12, 1962, Mingus punched Jimmy Knepper in the mouth although the two men were working together at Mingus's apartment on a score for his upcoming concert at New York Town Hall and Knepper refused to take on a lot more work. The blow from Mingus broke off a crowned tooth and its underlying stub,According to Knepper, this ruined his embouchure and resulted in the permanent loss of the top octave of his range on the trombone - a significant handicap for any expert trombonist. This attack temporarily ended their working relationship and Knepper was unable to perform at the concert. Charged with assault, Mingus appeared in court in January, 1963 and was given a suspended sentence. Knepper would once more function with Mingus in 1977 and played extensively with the Mingus Dynasty, formed after Mingus' death in 1979.
Mingus was evicted from his apartment at five Fantastic Jones Street in New York City for nonpayment of rent, captured in the film Mingus: 1968 by Thomas Reichman, which also capabilities Mingus performing in clubs and, in the apartment, shooting a shotgun, composing at the piano, and discussing adore, art, and politics and the music school he had hoped to produce,By the mid-1970s, Mingus was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, popularly recognized as Lou Gehrig's illness, a wastage of the musculature. His as soon as formidable bass method suffered, until he could no longer play the instrument. He continued composing, nevertheless, and supervised a number of recordings prior to his death.

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Uma doação para AbrELA – Associação Brasileira de Esclerose Lateral Amiotrófica será muito bem aceita:
Rua Pedro de Toledo, 377 – Vila Clementino
04039-000 - São Paulo, SP, Tel/Fax (11) 5579-2668

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Agência 0919
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