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Contrabaixista de jazz americano, compositor e líder de banda (1922–1979)
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Join the roomCharles Mingus Jr. foi um contrabaixista de jazz americano, compositor, líder de banda, pianista e autor. Um grande defensor da improvisação coletiva, ele é considerado um dos maiores músicos e compositores de jazz da história, com uma carreira que se estendeu por três décadas e colaborações com outros grandes nomes do jazz, como Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Max Roach e Eric Dolphy. O trabalho de Mingus variou de bebop avançado e jazz de vanguarda com ensembles pequenos e médios até o pioneirismo no estilo post-bop em gravações seminais como Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) e Mingus Ah Um (1959) e experimentos progressivos de big band como The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963).
“Good jazz is when the leader jumps on the piano, waves his arms, and yells. Fine jazz is when a tenorman lifts his foot in the air. Great jazz is when he heaves a piercing note for 32 bars and collapses on his hands and knees. A pure genius of jazz is manifested when he and the rest of the orchestra run around the room while the rhythm section grimaces and dances around their instruments.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, please don't associate me with any of this. This is not jazz. These are sick people.”
“My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable. Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”
“In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.”
“Since the white man says he came from the evolution of animals, well, maybe the black man didn't. The white man has made so many errors in the handling of people that maybe he did come from a gorilla or a fish and crawl up on the sand and then into the trees. Of course, evolution doesn't take God into consideration. I don't think people learned to do all the things they do through evolution.”
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