Charles Mingus Collection, 1939-1979
Span: 1939-1979
English
collection
13 ft.
84 boxes
The Charles Mingus Collection covers the music career of celebrated African American jazz musician/composer Mingus (1922-1979) from about 1939, the year he composed "What Love" and "Half Mast Inhibition", to his death on January 5, 1979. The series in the collection include music, writings (by and about Mingus), business papers, printed matter, iconography, personal documents, and sound recordings . Each series is rich with Mingus effects and memorabilia depicting his experiences in the world of jazz and some aspects of his private life.
The Charles Mingus Collection includes music (manuscript and printed of Mingus and others), writings by and about Mingus by Mingus and others, business papers, printed matter (such as articles and clippings, books and pamphlets, organizations and affiliations, programs, and promotional material), iconography (photographs of Mingus, his family, and colleagues such as Eric Dolphy, Dannie Richmond, Max Roach, Oscar Pettiford, and Miles Davis, artwork, and three dimensional items), personal material, and sound recordings.
Sound recordings transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
Charles Mingus Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
Mingus, Charles
The papers of an important American jazz bassist and composer.
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African Americans in the Performing Arts
Jazz Band Music
Arrangers
Jazz
Davis, Miles
Mingus, Charles
Dolphy, Eric
Richmond, Dannie
Roach, Max
Pettiford, Oscar
ML31.M56
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
scdb
Music Division, Library of Congress
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu004009
IHAS
120828
loc.natlib.scdb.200033554