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Charles Mingus

See also: -[Thomas Reichman]- (film: Mingus)

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                  [Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)]

                  [Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)]
                  [Dimitrii Shostakovich (1906-1975)]
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Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus (b.1922.04.22, Nogales, AZ; d.1979.01.05, Cuernavaca, Mexico).
aka "Charles Mingus, Jr."



As I sit here, editing the theatre entry for Weber & Fields, listening to
track #10, of the "best of" album of Mingus ".... atomic bomb? ... russia??", teers
welling up in my eyes, I *really* do wonder if we will survive? Esp, "4 more years"
I wonder.  And yet, I keep going. (why; i do not know)

Stuff

What happened is that he had played Carnigie Hall in New York
(sort of like landing on the moon is for astronauts; if they
were Amerian; or being blessed by the Pope for some caligraphic
work - frood; forget his name; etc).

But then when friends found that he was essentially starving
to death, they petitioned and a life-time (all too short at
this point) stipend was awarded so that he could live at
least in a *little* dignity. Odd, how we artists (and i assume
the same true for musican artist types) value money so little,
and yet in the end - it was causes us to end. It wasn't drink
that killed me (er, ahm: Alfred Jarry)