Synopsis
Charles Mingus was one of the all-time great jazz bass players but he was also an innovative composer and a leader with a clear vision of where he wanted to go and, in truth, little sympathy for those who couldn’t keep up with him. As a young jobbing bass man in the forties he played with the likes of Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton and his idol Duke Ellington. In the fifties he pursued a solo career and launched his own record label. After a bri[…]
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