In 1973, composer and bass virtuoso Charles Mingus signed his last recording contract with Atlantic; he'd stay with the label till his death in 1979. A new box set collects his music from that era.

In the summer of 1939, a 17-year-old bassist named Charles Mingus made a fateful trip to the Bay Area. While already possessed by extraordinary ambition—a racially ambiguous jazz artist drawn to ...

Charles Mingus would have turned 100 today. The jazz bassist is often mentioned in the same sentence as Duke Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. Russell Hall is a bassist and composer in ...

"Charles Mingus is one of our most important thinkers and composers," says Wynton Marsalis, who will lead two concerts in honor of the composer at Lincoln Center. "He touched on many of the ...

Jazz and the civil-rights movement were closely intertwined, and two musicians whose work was at the forefront of this intersection, Sonny Rollins and Charles Mingus, have new releases this month of ...

The 100th anniversary of the birth of the Promethean genius Charles Mingus falls on April 22, 2022—and Rhino/Parlophone are releasing a 2 x CD edition of Mingus Three (aka Trio, Jubilee, 1957) to ...