Charles Mingus (1922–1979) was an American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader renowned for combining tightly arranged compositions with intense collective improvisation.

Born April 22, 1922; died January 5, 1979. Prominent in postwar jazz as a bassist, composer and leader. Collaborated with many leading jazz figures and recorded landmark albums such as Pithecanthropus Erectus, Mingus Ah Um and The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.

A spirited collection of DeBaser reviews on Charles Mingus highlighting his forceful bass, inventive compositions and landmark albums. Reviews praise works such as Mingus Ah Um, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady and Pithecanthropus Erectus. The overall reception on DeBaser is admiring and often ecstatic.

For:Jazz listeners, students, collectors and readers curious about landmark jazz albums.

 “It is no longer a matter of color, it is something above that. I mean that it’s becoming increasingly difficult for man to truly love. And fewer and fewer men are making a real effort to discover who they truly are and base themselves on that knowledge. Most people are forced to do things they don’t want all the time, reaching a point where they feel they have no choice anymore. We create our own slavery, but I’ll make it and discover what kind of man I am—or I’ll die.”

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 “I am three. The first one is always in the middle, without worries, without emotions; it observes and waits for the opportunity to express what it sees to the other two. The second is like a frightened animal that attacks out of fear of being attacked. And then there is a person full of love and kindness who allows others to enter the most sacred cell of the temple of his being, and lets himself be insulted, and trusts everyone, signs contracts without reading them, and lets himself be convinced to work under cost or for free, and when he realizes what has been done to him, he feels like killing and destroying everything around him, including himself to punish himself for being so stupid. But he can’t do it: and instead closes himself off...”

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