In 1973, composer and bass virtuoso Charles Mingus signed his last recording contract with Atlantic; he'd stay with the label till his death in 1979. A new box set collects his music from that era.

This program was originally broadcast on February 26, 2016. The music, life and complex racial identity of jazz great Charles Mingus. Charles Mingus performs in lower Manhattan, N.Y., as a part of U.S ...

Mingus was a genius. The music on this CD is incredible. Anything that Mingus recorded was incredible. This being the Very Best Of, what does one expect, but fantastic performances. The only real ...

The 100th anniversary of the birth of the Promethean genius Charles Mingus falls on April 22, 2022—and Rhino/Parlophone are releasing a 2 x CD edition of Mingus Three (aka Trio, Jubilee, 1957) to ...

A new 2-CD set features a decades-old recording of Mingus and his quintet at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival. Citic Kevin Whitehead says the album showcases one of Mingus' most explosive bands.

Jazz and the civil-rights movement were closely intertwined, and two musicians whose work was at the forefront of this intersection, Sonny Rollins and Charles Mingus, have new releases this month of ...

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 was born on an Army post in Nogales, Arizona, where his father was stationed as part of a Buffalo Soldiers unit, on April 22, 1922. The revered jazz bassist and composer was a toddler ...

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 is one of the greatest jazz artists of the 20th century. He would have celebrated his 100th birthday on April 22. "Charles Mingus is one of our most important thinkers and composers," ...