His influences ranged from the blues of Big Bill Broonzy, the jazz of Charles Mingus, to the classical piano of Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Noteworthy performers included: Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Gil Evans, Stan Kenton, Johnny Richards, Sun Ra, Gary MacFarland, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Carla Bley, Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Big Band, Sam Rivers, Don Ellis, Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and Anthony Braxton.

The Mingus Big Band is an ensemble, based in New York City, that specializes in the compositions of the late Charles Mingus.

In addition to its weekly Monday night appearance at the Jazz Standard in New York City, the Mingus Big Band also tours frequently in Europe and other parts of the world.

* The Essential Mingus Big Band ( 2001 )

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He played with Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Big Band, and later with Earl Hines ' small band.

** Mingus Big Band for Live at Jazz Standard

* Ron Westray, jazz trombonist, member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the Mingus Big Band

** Mingus Big Band, a modern repertory group specializing in Mingus ' music

* Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard ( 2010 )-Mingus Big Band

The Mingus Big Band's recording of " Fables of Faubus ", on their album Gunslinging Birds, features in the background the piano player playing tunes of the civil war, like the Confederate "( I Wish I Was in ) Dixie " and Federal " Battle Hymn of the Republic ", emphasizing Mingus's contempt for racism.

After serving in the military, Kelly worked with Washington ( 1955 – 1957 ), Charles Mingus ( 1956 – 1957 ), and the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band ( 1957 ), but he would be most famous for his stint with Miles Davis ( 1959 – 1963 ), recording such albums with him as Kind of Blue, At the Blackhawk, and Someday My Prince Will Come.

Potter has released over 15 albums as a leader and performed as a sideman on more than 150 CD's with many leading musicians including Red Rodney, Marian McPartland, Patricia Barber, Kenny Werner, the Mingus Big Band, Paul Motian, Ray Brown, Jim Hall, James Moody, Dave Douglas, Joe Lovano, Wayne Krantz, Mike Mainieri, Steve Swallow, Steely Dan, Dave Holland, Joanne Brackeen, Adam Rogers and many more.

Two of his own compositions " Newcomer " and " Big Alice " were recorded on the Mingus Moves session but " Big Alice " was not released until a CD re-issue many years later.

* Mingus Big Band: Essential Mingus Big Band ( Dreyfus, 1996 )

He recorded albums by many artists including Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Derek and the Dominos, Rod Stewart, Wishbone Ash, Cream, Lulu, Chicago, The Allman Brothers Band, Joe Bonamassa, The J. Geils Band, Meat Loaf, Sonny & Cher, The Rascals, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross, The Eagles, Kenny Loggins, James Gang, Dusty Springfield, Eddie Harris, Charles Mingus, Herbie Mann, Booker T. and the MGs, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin and Joe Castro.

He was also a charter member of the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, and has toured extensively with Slide Hampton, Steve Turre, Dizzy Gillespie, and the Mingus Big Band, among others.

Conrad also performs and records with Eddie Palmieri ’ s " La Perfecta II " and Afro-Caribbean Jazz Octet, Paquito D ’ Rivera ’ s Havana-New York Connection, the Mingus Big Band ( often serving as musical director, and was an arranger on the 2007 Grammy nominated -" Live at the Tokyo Blue Note "), and the Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra, among others.

Jazz stars in the 1950s who came into prominence in their genres called Bebop, Hard bop, Cool jazz and the Blues, at this time included Lester Young, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Gil Evans, Jerry Mulligan, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Max Roach, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday.

** Jazz bassist / composer Charles Mingus presents a disastrous concert at Town Hall in New York City.

They worked at the Showplace during 1960 and recorded the albums, Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus and Mingus at Antibes ( the latter adding Booker Ervin on all tracks except " What Love?

* Mingus at Antibes ( 1960 )

Mingus is located at ( 32. 539489 ,-98. 423449 ).

This label released a record of a May 15, 1953 concert, billed as ' the greatest concert ever ', which came to be known as Jazz at Massey Hall, featuring Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Mingus and Roach.

* 1960: Mingus at Antibes-sits in on one track, " I'll Remember April "

Schuller is editor-in-chief of Jazz Masterworks Editions, and co-director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra in Washington, D. C. Another recent effort of preservation was his editing and posthumous premiering at Lincoln Center in 1989 of Charles Mingus ' immense final work, Epitaph, subsequently released on Columbia / Sony Records.

* Mingus at the Bohemia ( Debut, 1955 )

* Mingus at Monterey ( Jazz Workshop, 1964 )

Working together in college radio at WKCR-FM ( Columbia University, New York ) Fred / Alan's Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert saw the ratings success of radio marathons featuring Ludwig van Beethoven, John Coltrane, and Charles Mingus.

In 1870, at the age of 42, he married Sarah T. Mingus.

This concert was produced by Mingus ' widow, Sue, at Alice Tully Hall on June 3, 1989, 10 years after his death, and again at several concerts in 2007.

" Despite all these challenges, however, the concert, at Alice Tully Hall in New York's Lincoln Centre in 1989, was a triumph, if ten years too late for Charles Mingus to enjoy it.

* Mingus at Antibes ( Atlantic )

Macero worked with dozens of artists at Columbia including Mingus, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk, Johnny Mathis, Count Basie, Dave Brubeck, Tony Bennett, Charlie Byrd, and Stan Getz.

Jazz bassist Charles Mingus was also an influential bandleader and composer whose musical interests spanned from bebop to free jazz.

Jazz musician and composer Charles Mingus wrote the tone poem Pithecanthropus Erectus to tell the story of the evolution of man and his eventual downfall.

In a funeral tribute to Roach, then-Lieutenant Governor of New York David Paterson compared the musician's courage to that of Paul Robeson, Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X, saying that " No one ever wrote a bad thing about Max Roach's music or his aura until 1960, when he and Charlie Mingus protested the practices of the Newport Jazz Festival.

Jazz musician, Charles Mingus, recites a variation on the poem in the introduction to his composition “ Don't Let it Happen Here ”.

All of these musicians had strong backgrounds in jazz ; Berliner had worked closely with Charles Mingus and Kay was part of the Modern Jazz Quartet.

As a young man McLean also recorded with Gene Ammons, Charles Mingus on the seminal Pithecanthropus Erectus, George Wallington, and as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.

He has been active in Free Jazz circles, recording with Carla Bley, Don Cherry, Lee Konitz, John McLaughlin, Hōzan Yamamoto, Dave Holland, Gunther Schuller, the Mingus Epitaph Orchestra, Sam Rivers, Pharoah Sanders, Globe Unity Orchestra and many others.

He later played with Charles Mingus, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver, and Lou Donaldson, and led a group with Junior Cook.

* The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus ( Bethlehem, 1954 )

Jazz and Blues records provided his musical education: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Charles Mingus among many.

In 1953, Macero co-founded Charles Mingus ' Jazz Composers Workshop, and became a major contributor to the New York City avant-garde jazz scene.

He performed live, and recorded several albums with Mingus and the other Workshop members over the next three years, including Jazzical Moods ( in 1954 ) and Jazz Composers Workshop ( in 1955 ).

* The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus ( Bethlehem, 1954 )