In 2005 Aimard won a Grammy Award for his recording of piano music and songs of Charles Ives.

NPR: Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Art of the Etude

Recalling such maverick Yankee musicians as Charles Ives, it is written with Ms Bley's trademark flair and played with robust authority by her band.

ECONOMIST: Old friends are the best friends

It was while he was still at school that Mr Carter's interest in modern music was fired up by his encounters with Charles Ives, the most radical of the early 20th-century American modernists.

ECONOMIST: Elliott Carter

Mingus mashed up bebop, swing and soul, all while leading an avant-garde excavation of the free-jazz latent in New Orleans group improvisation a sort of bluesy Charles-Ives-meets-King-Oliver approach.

WSJ: Mercurial Charles Mingus | Mingus Ah Um | Masterpiece by Eric Felten