Charles Mingus News

A Staff writer for AAJ-NY , Elliott enjoys music with energy, chops and tension; whether it be from the mainstream or the outermost fringe.

Founded in 1979, the same year as the Walkman, this NYC underground label put out cassette-only releases that helped shape hardcore punk in the US ROIRing lion ... HR of Bad Brains in 2009.

MUSIC AS A CONTINUUM: For Palmer , Roscoe Mitchell, the Gnawa clansmen of Morocco, Charles Mingus, and Darius Milhaud were all colleagues.

John Handy's world is in boxes. There are dozens of them, containing a lifetime's worth of possessions and memories, and they combine to form a maze throughout his two-story house in the Oakland hills.

Submitted by Stephanie Hubbard on 2009-10-26.   The Yale Jazz Ensemble, directed by Thomas C. Duffy, will present its fall concert on Monday, Nov.

Glittering Year, Golden Anniversary In February, Thelonious Monk, a pianist-composer best known then for solo and combo work, appeared in concert with a big band at New York's Town Hall, an event preserved on disc by Riverside Records.

In this series on the fast-changing, 100-year-old history of jazz , the alto saxophone genius Charlie Parker has featured to an extent that might seem at odds with his short life, and a period of creative intensity that lasted barely 15 years.

I know pride precedes the fall as they say, but I can't help but be a bit smug when it comes to pointing out two of my many favorite blasts from the past.

Chico Hamilton Live Interview with Dave Schroeder at Barnes & Noble on Friday, October 23rd at 4:00 P.M. Chico Hamilton Live Interview with Dave Schroeder at Barnes & Noble on Friday, October 23rd at 4:00 p.m. Join us this Friday, October 23, for an in-store Barnes & Noble interview with Jazz legend Chico Hamilton Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm Barnes and ...

The Mitch Marcus Quintet has Sylvain Carton on alto and Marcus on tenor saxophone.

New York's Jazz Standard Monday October 12 Mingus Big Band Charles Mingus was looking for individuality in his musicians and thats one of the great things also about being in the Mingus Big Band, because it really forces you to have your own individual sound.

Four Manhattan School of Music alumni are being honored at a special alumni homecoming reception on October 16, 2009.

Hugh Fraser played his trombone and Lorae Farrell played her trumpet in their Oct.

The Guelph Jazz Festival and Colloquium devoted itself this year to trying to unpack an idea so common that it is at once crucial and clichA©: whether the practice of music-making might have world-changing implications.

"We prize individuality," states pianist Connie Crothers emphatically of New Artists Records.

The cover art to Charles Mingus & Spaulding Givens' Strings & Keys , on Mingus' own Debut Records.

MOTION: Energetic performance ruthless, hard and as new wave as it gets enthralls sold-out crowd.

Called 'superior jazz singing by an artist of the highest quality" by Jazz Journal International, Ellen Johnson will be sharing her unique style and repertoire of jazz vocals joined by San Diego jazz artists, pianist Rick Helzer and bassist Rob Thorsen.

A framed black-and-white photo hanging on the wall inside Massachusetts Avenue's Chatterbox jazz club might look a little familiar to music or photography enthusiasts.

The cover art for I Talking Now gives a visual demonstration of how trombonist Luis Bonilla 's father took control of conversations at the family dinner table.