‘Mingus’: Powerful and heartbreaking documentary portrait of the Jazz giant
‘Mingus’: Powerful and heartbreaking documentary portrait of the Jazz giant “Tuesday, November 22nd, 1966, jazz musician Charlie Mingus waited with his five-year-old daughter Carolyn, to be evicted...
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World Premiere: “Noonlight”
Tonight, March 3rd, 2014, at Jazz Standard: “Noonlight”, the world premiere of a newly discovered Charles Mingus composition will be performed by the Mingus Big Band – reconstructed and arranged by...
View ArticleMingus Music performed by JALC Ensemble in Chicago
On March 28th, 2014, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performed works by Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington. “By spotlighting music from both artists’ enormous oeuvres in a...
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Mingus Music featured at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Film Festival
On June 27th, the Mingus Dynasty performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (click for link) for the screening of Manny Kirchheimer’s 1981 film “Stations of the Elevated”. The film hasn’t been seen...
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Kenny Drew Jr.
We mourn the loss of Kenny Drew Jr. who performed with the Mingus Big Band for many years. He was an exceptional piano player and artist who died much too young. —Sue Mingus
View ArticleTomorrow: The Music of Charles Mingus, a Master Class
Tomorrow! Tuesday, Oct 28th, 2014 Manhattan School of Music 3-5pm Carla Bossi Comelli Studio (7th Floor) 120 Claremont Ave. (122nd St. near Broadway) Lecture by Ken Pullig of Berklee College of Music...
View ArticleReviews: Mingus Big Band at Ronnie Scott’s, Oct 20-25, 2014
Thank you to Ronnie Scott’s for hosting a great week of Mingus music in London! The Telegraph (click for link) “Profound… The moments when the band came together were the most fascinating, because you...
View ArticleLeader of Peabody Jazz Orchestra talks about value of playing in big band
New York–based drummer Devin Gray says that a large-ensemble job he picked up over the summer was like many paying gigs: Show up and then find out who you’re playing with and what you’re playing. Some...
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Gunther Schuller on Mingus: MSM, 2009
(Photo: Gunther Schuller & Sue Mingus) Gunther Schuller on Mingus I am always happy — and indeed feel privileged— to talk about Charles Mingus and his music, and his amazing life. He was my...
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Gunther Schuller in The Independent
(Gunther Schuller at the Mingus Festival 2013, photo by Sue Mingus) Read the article here “Gunther Schuller’s passing is a major loss to the world of both classical and jazz music. Not many have...
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