Happy Mingus Centennial!https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/charles-mingus-centennial-broadcast https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/arts/music/charles-mingus-centennial.html
― mizzell, Thursday, 21 April 2022 23:25 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch71BX1PskQ
marcello c shared this '64 rehearsal vid earlier, the footage is in such good nick it looked like it could have been filmed yesterday. And quite sadly Dolphy looks in such good health, it's hard to believe he's nearly gone:(
― calzino, Thursday, 21 April 2022 23:34 (two years ago) link
Jaki Byard was another sad futile death, albeit much later as well, shot dead in his apartment. Great pianist.
― calzino, Thursday, 21 April 2022 23:52 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2KDM6TA6ow
― Maresn3st, Friday, 22 April 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
I've been on a big Mingus listening spree the last couple of weeks. It got me thinking about what happened with him and Jimmy Knepper and I was curious about the circumstances of Knepper working with Mingus some late in life.
I did not quite find an exact answer, but I did find this interesting article I thought was a good and worthwhile read.
http://americanaejournal.hu/vol10jazz/gabbard
― earlnash, Saturday, 10 September 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
I had forgotten how Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert contains a LOT of Bill Cosby interludes. Or maybe it sunk more in the background back then. Still, "Ecclusiastics"
― Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Friday, 30 June 2023 22:03 (ten months ago) link