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One of the most important figures in twentieth century American music, Charles Mingus was a virtuoso bass player, accomplished pianist, bandleader and composer. Born on a military base in Nogales, Arizona in 1922 and raised in Watts, California, his earliest musical influences came from the church— choir and group singing— and from "hearing Duke Ellington over the radio when [he] was eight years old." He studied double bass and composition in a formal way (five years with H. Rheinshagen, principal bassist of the New York Philharmonic, and compositional techniques with the legendary Lloyd Reese) while absorbing vernacular music from the great jazz masters, first-hand
In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: CD 1: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Duke Ellington's Song Of Love; Noddin' Ya Head
Blues; Three Or Four Shades Of Blue; Koko/Cherokee; For Harry Carney; Cumbia
& Jazz Fusion; Solo Piano Improvisation. CD 2: Sue's Changes;
Koko/Cherokee/band intro; Fable Of Faubus; Solo Piano Improvisation.
In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: CD1: Introduction; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love; Noddin’ Ya Head Blues;
Three or Four Shades of Blue; Koko/Cherokee; For Harry Carney; Cumbia & Jazz Fusion; Solo Piano
Improvisation.
CD2: Sue's Changes (Incomplete); Koko/Cherokee/Band Intros; Fables of Faubus; Solo Piano
Improvisation.
Mingus in Argentina
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love; Noddin' Ya Head Blues; Three Or Four Shades Of Blue;
Koko/Cherokee; For Harry Carney; Cumbia & Jazz Fusion; Solo Piano Improvisation (Perfomed by Charles Mingus);
Sue's Changes; Koko/Cherokee; Fables Of Faubus; Solo Piano Improvisation (Performed by Charles Mingus).
Barbara Bruckmüller Jazz Orchestra, feat. Aruán Ortiz: A Chain of Moments
by Artur Moral
Julio Cortázar's Rayuela (1963), Chris Ware's Building Stories (2012), and Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves (2000) are novels--both written and graphic--that stand out, not just for their literary merit, but also for the various ways readers can engage with them. A similar phenomenon occurs on the listening level with A Chain Of Moments: Suite in ...
The Hemphill Stringtet: The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill
by Mark Corroto
Let us borrow a famous tagline from the dairy industry: Got Hemphill? If not, it is time to take a closer listen. Julius Hemphill (1938-1995) was a towering figure in the creative music scenes of both jny: St. Louis, where he co-founded the Black Artists' Group (BAG), and jny: New York's vibrant loft jazz scene of ...
Brittany Davis, Joe Lovano, Steve Hirsh & Jakob Bro
by Maurice Hogue
If you haven't heard of singer/pianist Brittany Davis, find her new album Black Thunder now! Ms Davis, who hails from Seattle and is blind, has released a very exciting recording that evokes echoes of Nina Simone, Betty Carter, Fay Victor and other great female singers. The fact that she and her trio, despite not being all ...
Jaki Byard: Blues For Smoke
by Fran Kursztejn
If Jaki Byard is most commonly categorized as a proud progenitor of the 'new jazz,' as his seminal work with Eric Dolphy on Outward Bound and Charles Mingus on Black Saint and the Sinner Lady would suggest, then a record like Blues for Smoke may throw listeners for a loop. Byard's notoriously difficult to pin down--a ...
Charles Mingus: In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts
by Thierry De Clemensat
Resonance Records specializes in the release of such sonic documents, serving both the history of jazz and the sheer pleasure that albums of this kind offer to collectors. It is, therefore, with immense delight that we rediscover in this recording Charles Mingus (bass and piano), Ricky Ford (tenor saxophone), Jack Walrath (trumpet;), Robert Neloms (piano), Dannie ...
Charles Mingus: In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts
by Pierre Giroux
The Charles Mingus ensemble that arrived in Argentina in 1977 for the Buenos Aires concerts remains one of the lesser-known yet musically potent groups in the bassist-composer's storied history. These concerts are now presented in this first authorized release as a 2-CD set under the title Mingus In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts, offered in a ...
