finetune artist: Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus poured the full weight of his experience into everything he played. He was a powerful virtuoso on bass, and as a composer he drew on the whole history of jazz to produce works of trenchant beauty. Above all, he was an artist whose uncompromising spirit invited both controversy and adulation. In the '40s and '50s he worked as bassist for everyone from Kid Ory and Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. Mingus began recording as a leader in the early '50s, and by the end of the decade he was at the peak of his powers as bandleader, arranger, and composer. He incorporated the influence of gospel, blues, and European classical composers into a big-band jazz format, crafting an innovative, completely unique sound. Mingus died of Lou Gehrig's Disease in 1978, but his mark on subsequent musical generations is indelible.

Listen to Charles Mingus at Finetune.

(2007) Tijuana Moods
(2007) Best Of/20th Century
(2006) The Impulse Story
(2006) Town Hall Concert, 1964
(2006) Mingus At The Bohemia
(2006) Right Now: Live At The Jazz Workshop
(2006) Jazzical Moods
(2005) Timeless: Charles Mingus
(2005) Me Myself An Eye
(2005) Something Like A Bird
(2005) Tonight At Noon
(2005) Three Or Four Shades Of Blue
(2005) Cumbia & Jazz Fusion
(2005) Mingus At Carnegie Hall
(2005) Passions Of A Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings
(2005) Changes One
(2005) Changes Two
(2005) Mingus Moves
(2005) Mingus At Antibes
(2005) The Clown
(2004) Town Hall Concert
(2003) Jazz Composers Workshop
(2002) Charles Mingus' Finest Hour
(2001) Tijuana Moods
(1999) Pre-Bird
(1998) The Complete 1959 Columbia Recordings
(1997) Mingus Plays Piano
(1997) Priceless Jazz 7 : Charles Mingus
(1995) The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
(1995) Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
(1994) Jazz Portraits-Mingus In Wonderland
(1993) Paris 1964
(1990) Epitaph
(1979) Ah Um
(1973) Charles Mingus And Friends In Concert
(1972) Let My Children Hear Music
(1963) Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus
(1960) Mingus Dynasty
(1959) Alternate Takes
(1959) This Is Jazz #6
(1959) Ken Burns Jazz-Charles Mingus
(1957) New Tijuana Moods

Mood Indigo
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul
Dizzy Moods
Haitian Fight Song