vendredi 7 décembre 2012

Trouvé sur Jazzwax

Trouvé sur le blog JAZZWAX du journaliste Marc Myers  un article sur le contre-bassiste Charles Mingus.
JAZZWAX est un blog concernant des musiciens de jazz entre 1940 et 1970, donc vraiment un peu de l'histoire du jazz.
En plus après la mort de Dave Brubeck , Marc a regardé dans ces archives.




Charles Mingus: Workshop Concerts

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By 1960, bassist, composer and leader Charles Mingus wasn't a jazz musician in the traditional sense. He was an activist, and if the new Charles Mingus: The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65(Mosaic) box is any indication, his music was two years ahead of Huey Newton's Black Panthers and the Black Power movement in general—both of which were launched in 1966 to draw an assertive line on white racial terrorism.
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Mingus's activist roots likely date back to September 1951, when he found himself unable to join Red Norvo and Tal Farlow behind vocalist David Thorne on WCBS-TV in New York. The official reason was that Mingus didn't have a Local 802 union card. Mingus viewed the ban as racism and left the trio after the incident.
L'article intégral: http://www.jazzwax.com/page/2/
Jazz in Belgium vient de trouver sur you tube un concert de Charles Mingus  à Liège en 1964

Charles Mingus - Jazz Pour Tous In Belgium
Tunes (all by Mingus) : So Long Eric 0:30 Peggy's Blue Skylight 5:19 Meditations On Integration 11:09 Filmed in Belgium April 19, 1964. Charles Mingus - Bass Jaki Byard - Piano Eric Dolphy - Alto…
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