Charles Mingus

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Charles Mingus grew up in Watts, Los Angeles, and was a bassist, composer and bandleader. Duke Ellington was his great example; as a boy he heard East St. Louis Toodle-Oo and in 1953 he briefly played in Ellington's orchestra. He played with Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton and Charlie Parker. In his Jazz Workshop he taught his musicians the pieces by ear, so that they could remain free. His music blends gospel, blues, bebop and free passages. Mingus was combative: in Fables of Faubus he mocked the governor of Arkansas, who had refused Black schoolchildren entry to a school. He wrote Goodbye Pork Pie Hat in memory of Lester Young.

Listening

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  Original Faubus Fables · Charles Mingus, 1960
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  Goodbye Pork Pie Hat · Charles Mingus, 1959
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  Better Git It in Your Soul · Charles Mingus, 1959

Discography

Studio albums

• 1953Strings and Keys
• 1954Introducing Paul Bley
• 1955Jazz Collaborations, Vol. I
• 1955Jazzical Moods
• 1956Jazz Composers Workshop
• 1956Move!
• 1956Pithecanthropus Erectus
• 1957A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry With Charles Mingus
• 1957East Coasting
• 1957Four Trombones
• 1957Mingus Three
• 1957The Clown
• 1959Mingus Ah Um
• 1960Blues & Roots
• 1960Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
• 1960Mingus
• 1960Mingus Dynasty
• 1961Pre-Bird
• 1962Money Jungle
• 1962Oh Yeah
• 1962Tijuana Moods
• 1963Reincarnation of a Love Bird
• 1963The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
• 1964Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
• 1964Mingus Plays Piano
• 1964Tonight at Noon
• 1971Blue Bird
• 1972Let My Children Hear Music
• 1974Mingus Moves
• 1975Changes One
• 1975Changes Two
• 1977Three or Four Shades of Blues
• 1978Cumbia & Jazz Fusion
• 1979Me, Myself an Eye
• 1980Something Like a Bird
• 1995Stormy & Funky Blues
• ?Lullabye of the Leaves
• ?Shadows (soundtrack)

In School of Rock

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• Jazz Map^NL Map
• Mixtape 10: Women in Pop Music^NL Reader
• After Hours: Session 2^NL Reader
• After Hours: Session 3^NL Reader

Mentioned in other articles

• Third stream GenreFor the jazz festival of Brandeis University in 1957, Charles Mingus and George Russell, among others, wrote new pieces.

See also

• Pithecanthropus Erectus
• East Coasting
• The Clown
• Mingus Ah Um
• Blues & Roots
• Pre-Bird
• Oh Yeah
• The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
• Cumbia & Jazz Fusion
• Hard bop
• Free jazz
• Third stream