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Carl Woideck Jazz Heritage Project: Remembering Charles Mingus at John G Shedd Institute for the Arts
Courtesy of Sophie Mitchell | Posted on September 7, 2017
Where
John G Shedd Institute for the Arts
868 High St
Eugene, OR
Map
(541) 434-7000
When
Fri, November 17, 2017
7:30 pm
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About
Bassist-composer-bandleader-pianist Charles Mingus was a man of many moods and emotions, and his wide-ranging music reflected his personality. His earliest influences included his mother's Holiness church and Duke Ellington. In the mid-1940s, the modern jazz of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie entered Mingus's musical sphere. If that wasn't enough, in the 1950s, Mingus's early Western classical music studies surfaced in a series of Third Stream recordings, and in 1960, he embraced the then-burgeoning Avant Garde movement. The rest of his career found him integrating all the styles that made Mingus Mingus...