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

WSJ: Charles Mingus Lives | By Nat Hentoff

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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