Charles Mingus demonstrated his prowess as a songwriter even in the early stages of his career. Surprisingly, he started writing songs as early as 1945, a fact that often goes unnoticed. This ...

Charles Mingus was larger than life as a composer, performer and bandleader. A writer of frequently difficult music, Mingus was demanding of himself and his musicians, yet he never wanted his works to ...

Charles Mingus, born 100 years ago Friday, was jazz’s ultimate firebrand. As an African American artist, he gave no quarter to the establishment in the 1960s. One of this country’s greatest composers, ...

Charles Mingus would have turned 100 today. The jazz bassist is often mentioned in the same sentence as Duke Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. HALL: If I had to describe what his ...

In the summer of 1939, a 17-year-old bassist named Charles Mingus made a fateful trip to the Bay Area. While already possessed by extraordinary ambition—a racially ambiguous jazz artist drawn to ...

"Charles Mingus is one of our most important thinkers and composers," says Wynton Marsalis, who will lead two concerts in honor of the composer at Lincoln Center. "He touched on many of the ...

The bassist’s reissued ‘Mingus at Monterey’ and the drummer’s previously unreleased ‘Strasbourg 82’ highlight both musicians ...

“I’m trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it’s difficult is because I’m changing all the time.” — Charles Mingus More than almost any other great music innovator in or out of jazz, ...

Critic Kevin Whitehead reflects on the legacy of the musician who would have been 100 on April 22, 2022. Mingus died in 1979, leaving behind a catalog of music that reflected his outsized personality.

What was Charles Mingus really like? The jazz bassist and composer, who was born 100 years ago on April 22nd, was “powerful…completely individual…volatile ...

Charles Mingus reminded the world that jazz is a vital expression of struggle, joy, and truth. This has been Rapp on Jazz, a ...