#charlesmingus performs "Meditations On Integration" with Eric Dolphy, Dannie Richmond, Jaki Byard, Johnny Coles, and Clifford Jordan in Stockholm, 1964 #mingus

Join us in celebrating the birth of @charlesmingus.com, born on this day in 1922! #charlesmingus #mingus #heavenlybirthday

Remembering #charlesmingus on the 103rd anniversary of his birth.

"I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time." - Charles Mingus - 📷: K Abe - 🎵: "So Long Eric" live in Belgium, 1964

Charles Mingus
April 22nd, 1922 - January 5th, 1979

#charlesmingus - 📷 by Lou Jones

"I would not play without him..." - #charlesmingus on drummer #dannierichmond

Charles Mingus performs "Pithecanthropus Erectus" with Eddie Preston, Charles McPherson, Bobby Jones, Jaki Byard, and Dannie Richmond in Demark, 1970 #charlesmingus #mingus

"I just write the music, you know, I don't tell them how to play...I tell them how to phrase the composition and they bring it over into their playing sometimes" - #charlesmingus on the art of being a bandleader. 1975 Kongsberg Jazz Festival

#charlesmingus performs at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 20th, 1975 - 📷 from David Redfern/Redferns

Mingus Dynasty performs Friday, Jan 24 at Zinc Bar.
TRUMPET Jeremy Pelt
ALTO SAXOPHONE David Lee Jones
TENOR John Ellis
TROMBONE Mariel Bildsten
PIANO Orrin Evans @orrinevans.bsky.social
BASS Mark Lewandowski
DRUMS E.J. Strickland @ejstrickland.bsky.social www.zincbar.com/event/mingus...

Gearing up for 17th Annual Charles Mingus Festival and High School Competition Feb 14-16, 2025 at New School and at @joespub.bsky.social charlesmingus.org for more info