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1 May 2024 Conversations with Tyler Coleman Hughes on Colorblindness, Jazz, and Identity
“Mingus’s music is my favorite of all of those because it sounds like Duke Ellington if Duke Ellington had an acid trip and composed things that were broadly in his idiom, but just everything was changed a bit.”
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- 1 May 2024
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…Why is the music of Charles Mingus special in jazz? Because it is to me, but how would you articulate what it is for you? I would wholeheartedly agree that it’s special even within jazz. The way I would describe it is, there are certain jazz musicians that seem to have created their own autonomous island within the landscape of jazz. Whereas most of the great jazz musicians resided in the same country, certain people were off in Taiwan on their own island. I would put Mingus in that category. I would put someone like Monk in that category. Ornette Coleman, people like that. Mingus’s music is my favorite of all of those because it sounds like Duke Ellington if Duke Ellington had an acid trip and composed things that were broadly in his idiom, but just everything was changed a bit. That’s how I would describe Mingus. Where should a podcast listener start if they don’t know Mingus?…
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