{"id":435859,"date":"2022-04-22T01:19:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T22:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/charles-mingus-is-still-the-great-american-rebel-100-years-on\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T01:19:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T22:19:33","slug":"charles-mingus-is-still-the-great-american-rebel-100-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/charles-mingus-is-still-the-great-american-rebel-100-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"#Charles Mingus is still the great American rebel, 100 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4189753040c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4189753040c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/charles-mingus-is-still-the-great-american-rebel-100-years-on\/#%E2%80%9CCharles_Mingus_is_still_the_great_American_rebel_100_years_on%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Charles Mingus is still the great American rebel, 100 years on&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CCharles_Mingus_is_still_the_great_American_rebel_100_years_on%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Charles Mingus is still the great American rebel, 100 years on&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Charles Mingus, born 100 years ago Friday, was jazz\u2019s ultimate firebrand. As an African American artist, he gave no quarter to the establishment in the 1960s. One of this country\u2019s greatest composers, Mingus could also lead a band like a peerless field <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The artistic and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> polemicist is rarely cited as a member of the inner circle of the jazz Hall of Fame, which features the likes of Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane. Now\u2019s the time for a redressing.<\/p>\n<p>Mingus had the courage of a James Baldwin, a Muhammad Ali, a Sam Cooke \u2014 artists of the civil-rights movement who could no more pull a punch than take a dive. His best art bristles with an intensity one rarely finds in the genre that is arguably America\u2019s only indigenous art form. To hear him with his sextet during his <em>annus mirabilis<\/em> of 1964 is to hear perhaps the finest small band there ever was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was always doing revolutionary things,\u201d Mingus said, \u201cthings that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People can be pretty subservient right now, and it\u2019s a self-imposed subservience of thinking a new Facebook filter gets things done.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re in the lip-service age. Your neighbor is going to plant that Black Lives Matter flag in his lawn, a sop to his con<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>, an assertion that he\u2019s someone who really gets it and cares, and then wash his hands. All done.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"847\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-2-1.jpg?w=847\" alt=\"Charles Mingus\" class=\"wp-image-21993674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-2-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1694 1694w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-2-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1271 1270w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-2-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=847 847w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-2-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=424 423w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-2-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\"\/><figcaption>Charles Mingus\u2019 music has similarities to Louis Armstrong\u2019s legendary \u201cHot Fives and Sevens\u201d recordings.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"744\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-6.jpg?w=744\" alt=\"Charles Mingus\" class=\"wp-image-21993341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1488 1488w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1116 1116w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=744 744w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=372 372w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\"\/><figcaption>Mingus\u2019 musical talents are hard to find in America\u2019s only indigenous art form. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But you know one of the best things we can do by any race of people? Celebrate their greatest creations. Experience them. Delve deep into that art. Let it enrich our lives and inform our perspective. Put one\u2019s money where one\u2019s mouth is. Be a learner, not a lip-servicer.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to Mingus will fry your DNA. It isn\u2019t possible to experience his finest albums \u2014 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/cornell-1964-mw0000480163\">\u201cCornell 1964,\u201d<\/a> \u201cMingus Ah Um,\u201d \u201cThe Black Saint and the Sinner Lady\u201d \u2014 and not emerge transformed. This is what we are here for: to expose ourselves to life experiences \u2014 which is what the best art is \u2014 that shake up who we are.<\/p>\n<p>Mingus was a modernist steeped in jazz history. To be steeped in jazz history is to be steeped in the history of America. It\u2019s all in there with jazz: racial oppression, the fight for a voice, the striving hope of work songs and spirituals in the field, the hard-won ascent to something better. Mingus\u2019 music contains the sonic upheaval that was to be found in Louis Armstrong\u2019s legendary Hot Fives and Sevens recordings, the mercurial futurism of Charlie Parker, the sophisticated, neo-classical \u00e9lan of Duke Ellington. Simply put, he got it and his music still gets it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"838\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-4.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Bass player Charles Mingus and composer Duke Ellington \" class=\"wp-image-21993240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Bass player Charles Mingus and composer Duke Ellington during the recording of their album \u201cMoney Jungle,\u201d which was released in 1962. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images\/Michael Ochs <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-7.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Charles Mingus\" class=\"wp-image-21993342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-7.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-7.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-7.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Jazz guitarist Tal Farlow, bassist Charles Mingus and vibraphonist Red Norvo perform onstage in 1955. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images\/Charles Peterson<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1015\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-3.jpg?w=1015\" alt=\"Charles Mingus\" class=\"wp-image-21993239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1523 1522w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1015 1015w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=508 507w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/charles-mingus-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1015px) 100vw, 1015px\"\/><figcaption>Mingus pictured performing with English jazz musician Tubby Hayes.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Popperfoto via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a jazz musician who seemed capable of commandeering respect by sheer force of will, Mingus possessed rare finesse. He teaches that it\u2019s possible to be honest without brutality, and if his bedside manner, as such, was indomitable and fierce, he also existed to connect and empower. There was a lot more walk, we can say, with Mingus, for all the talk this far-from-diffident man was prone to dishing out.<\/p>\n<p>His bass playing doesn\u2019t get a ton of props for its virtuosity, but that\u2019s because of Mingus\u2019 songsmithing, which is rarefied. Not necessarily Duke Ellington rarefied, but within hailing distance. The tunes that represented a kind of cumulative copestone to his career denounced machinations; they went straight through you, <em>for you<\/em>. In other words, Mingus\u2019 message of individualism brokered no artifice. This is music that\u2019s a veritable body blow for the soul, on behalf of truth and being what you say you are.<\/p>\n<p>Coming to Mingus\u2019 music as a young man made me more open to the world than I would have been. His music is surging and real, and not much that we focus on really is. There are a lot of flashing lights in today\u2019s world but few beacons. Put on some headphones and crank some Mingus \u2014 a big-time beacon guy \u2014 for his centennial.<\/p>\n<p>The sound of legitimacy is the sound of rebirth. Why give lip service to anything when the realest of real deals is out there singing its siren song? All we have to do is hear it. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Colin Fleming is author of \u201cSam Cooke: Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963.\u201d<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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