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By contrast, the Charles Mingus High School Competition and Festival was founded only in 2008.
WSJ: Charles Mingus Lives | By Nat Hentoff
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In the 1950s, Dave Brubeck was jazz's resident intellectual (Thelonious Monk the eccentric, Charles Mingus the rebel, Miles Davis the movie star).
WSJ: The Jazz Scene: It's Cool in Brubeck's Shadow
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McLean also played with Art Blakey and Charles Mingus and made over 20 albums of his own for the Blue Note label in the 1960s.
NPR: Jackie McLean: A Saxophone Great
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The noted Charles Mingus band alumnist Jackie Bayard(ph) gave him a leg-up on other studio wizards with some real jazz chops and a unique sonic sensibility.
NPR: The Bird and the Bee, Getting Buzz
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The group keeps alive the legacy of the great bassist and composer Charles Mingus, and for this special concert, it revisited music recorded 50 years ago.
NPR: Mingus Big Band: A Rousing, Raucous Concert
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In 1959, Columbia Records released three discs poised to set the future course of jazz: Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue, " Dave Brubeck's "Time Out" and "Mingus Ah Um" by bassist, bandleader and composer Charles Mingus.
WSJ: Mercurial Charles Mingus | Mingus Ah Um | Masterpiece by Eric Felten
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The rest of the boxed set is given to orchestral projects, including excellent albums from the studio ("Let My Children Hear Music, " released in 1972) and live at Philharmonic later Avery Fisher Hall ("Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert, " 1972).
WSJ: Charles Mingus | The Bassist in a Box | By Will Friedwald
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Further news had to wait until astronauts installed the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble telescope in 2009 and again trained it on the candidate, which had - in an SCP tradition of naming supernovae after composers - already been named after jazz musician Charles Mingus.
BBC: Supernova 'Mingus' could shed light on dark energy