Editing Charles Mingus (section)

{{Short description|American jazz musician (1922–1979)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = Charles Mingus
| image           = Charles Mingus 1976 cropped.jpg
| caption         = Mingus in 1976
| birth_name      = Charles Mingus Jr.
| alias           = Charlie Mingus
| birth_date      = {{birth date|1922|4|22}}
| birth_place     = [[Nogales, Arizona]], U.S.
| death_date      = {{death date and age|1979|1|5|1922|4|22}}
| death_place     = [[Cuernavaca]], Mexico
| origin          = [[Los Angeles]], California, U.S.
| instrument      = {{hlist|Double bass|piano}}
| genre           = {{hlist|[[Jazz]]|[[hard bop]]|[[bebop]]|[[avant-garde jazz]]|[[post-bop]]|[[third stream]]|[[orchestral jazz]]|[[free jazz]]}}
| occupation      = {{hlist|Musician|composer|bandleader}}
| years_active    = 1943–1979
| label           = {{hlist|[[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]|[[Candid Records|Candid]]|[[Columbia Records|Columbia]]|[[Debut Records|Debut]]|[[Impulse! Records|Impulse!]]|[[Mercury Records|Mercury]]|[[United Artists Records|United Artists]]}}
| website         = {{URL|https://www.charlesmingus.com/}}
}}

'''Charles Mingus Jr.''' (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American [[jazz]] [[Double bass|upright bassist]], [[composer]], [[bandleader]], [[pianist]], and [[author]]. A major proponent of collective [[Musical improvisation|improvisation]], he is considered one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history,<ref name="Underdog">See the 1998 documentary ''Triumph of the Underdog''</ref> with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz greats such as [[Duke Ellington]], [[Charlie Parker]], [[Max Roach]], and [[Eric Dolphy]]. Mingus's work ranged from advanced [[bebop]] and [[avant-garde jazz]] with small and midsize [[jazz ensemble|ensembles]] to pioneering the [[post-bop]] style on seminal recordings like ''[[Pithecanthropus Erectus (album)|Pithecanthropus Erectus]]'' (1956) and ''[[Mingus Ah Um]]'' (1959) and [[progressive big band]] experiments such as ''[[The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady]]'' (1963).

Mingus's compositions continue to be played by contemporary musicians ranging from the repertory bands [[Mingus Big Band]], [[Mingus Dynasty (band)|Mingus Dynasty]], and Mingus Orchestra to high school students who play the charts and compete in the Charles Mingus High School Competition.<ref>{{cite web |last=Barteldes |first=Ernest |title=Thirty Years On, The Music Remains Strong; Charles Mingus's legacy revisited at the Manhattan School of Music |url=http://nypress.com/thirty-years-on-the-music-remains-strong/ |url-status=dead |website=Nypress.com |date=18 February 2009 |access-date=26 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414132729/http://nypress.com/thirty-years-on-the-music-remains-strong/ |archive-date=14 April 2014}}</ref> In 1993, the [[Library of Congress]] acquired Mingus's collected papers—including scores, sound recordings, correspondence and photos—in what it called "the most important acquisition of a manuscript collection relating to jazz in the Library's history".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rule |first=Sheila |date=1993-06-14 |title=Library of Congress Buys Charles Mingus Archive|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/14/arts/library-of-congress-buys-charles-mingus-archive.html |access-date=2023-02-13}}</ref>