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Mingus
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Min·gus  (mnggs), Charles 1922-1979.
American jazz bassist and composer of complex works that knitted together elements of jazz, classical, and gospel.
Mingus [ˈmɪŋgəs]
n
(Biographies / Mingus, Charles (1922-1979) M, US, MUSIC: jazz double bassist, MUSIC: composer, MUSIC: bandleader) Charles, known as Charlie Mingus. 1922-79, US jazz double bassist, composer, and band leader
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He wrote more than 1,000 pieces in his career, for film, television and ballet as well as jazz, and with Mingus, Charles and musicologist Gunther Schuller, he became more deeply involved in the late-1950s jazz/contemporary classical crossover explorations known as the third stream.
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