Of all jazz composers so far, only Charles Mingus has equaled Duke Ellington in memorable originality, multidimensional forms and depth of continually surprising imagination. As Gunther Schuller, both an established composer of classical music and a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master told me for my book, “American Music Is,“ “Mingus's music is one of the widest-ranging musics you can find, composed by one single human being. It covered the entire range of human emotions. So, he exactly reflected wh
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