"Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me
."
In this furious and ironic prayer from 1962, Charles Mingus worried about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The title resurfaced because of the war in Ukraine.
Do we need the good care of Vladimir Putin to bring this extraordinary double bass player and composer back to the fore?
We celebrate, this April 22, the centenary of his birth in a relative indifference in France.
Nothing is planned, except, on the waves, a special program of TSF Jazz.
The most important event of this anniversary will therefore remain the release of an unreleased recording from 1972,
The Lost Album From Ronnie Scott’s
, under the Resonance Records label.
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Charles Mingus, who died aged 56 in 1979 from Charcot's disease, did not have the recognition of a Charlie Parker or a Duke Ellington, with whom he often played.
This lack of light is perhaps explained by the singularity and the requirement of his style, explorations where…
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