Charles Mingus was known for being angry and outspoken on the bandstand.

查尔斯·明格斯素以他的愤怒和直言不讳而在乐界闻名。

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When I reached my dorm, I found an old record player blocking my door and a Charles Mingus LP propped beside it.

我到了宿舍，发现我的门口有一个旧的留声机和一张查理•明格斯的唱片摆在门外。

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Jazz is a uniquely black American genre, and many of its most famous artists, such as John Coltrane and Charles Mingus, were heavily involved in the civil rights movement.

爵士乐是美国黑人特有的一种音乐类别，而且许多著名的爵士乐音乐家，如约翰·克特兰、查尔斯·明格斯都是黑人民权运动的积极参与者。

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By contrast, the Charles Mingus High School Competition and Festival was founded only in 2008.

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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).

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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.

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