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The School of Jazz and Contemporary Music Happy #MingusMondays! We are thrilled to share the news that a piano that Charles Mingus used to compose many of his masterworks is being shared with the The School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. The historical piano was shipped this ... 8 Likes

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The School of Jazz and Contemporary Music The Charles Mingus Steinway grand piano finds a new home:
Courtesy of Sue Mingus & The Charles Mingus Institute
The School of Jazz and Contemporary Music
The New School
We received a very special delivery this week!
This Steinway B ... 7 Comments

Jazz Standard This is amazing! Thank yo for this.Some how I miss moving pianos for a livingand the spirit lives on

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About last night...
We co-presented a Facebook Live talk about music and democracy. You can tune in anytime!
Regina Carter is a lot of things: She’s a pioneering jazz violinist. She’s a MacArthur Genius. She’s the artistic director of New ... 2 Likes

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"The best album I have ever made." - Charles Mingus
Recorded on this day, September 23, 1971 - Let My Children Hear Music
Tracks #1 & 7 (day one out of four recording sessions)
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1st Mingus album I ever heard! Salina (KS) downtown library, checked it out, about the same time I discovered Monk ...We used to joke at my college radio station in the early-mid 1970's about how many albums Mingus said this ...I agree with Mingus, a timeless masterpiece. I mean ‘timeless’ as in ‘ageless’, not that it’s ‘out of time’.
Just ...

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An Exclusive Talk with Violinist Regina Carter Discussing Her Latest Album Swing States: Harmony in... Regina Carter is a lot of things: She’s a pioneering jazz violinist. She’s a MacArthur Genius. She’s the artistic director of New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) Geri Allen Jazz Camp for young women. Watch her talk about her thrilling ... 38 Comments

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Jazz Standard This interview will be available to view on our Facebook and YouTube pages. Watch it again! https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=952678821895583&extid=hcEKSEmKb8UbLqlk

Jazz Standard Thank you jazz fans for tuning in!

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Sad that this isn't happening.I'm excited. Whenis starting?

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TUNE IN: Tuesday 9/22 at 7:30pm-8:30pm ET
We are thrilled to be hosting another exclusive online conversation with New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). This time we welcome the extraordinary violinist Regina Carter to discuss her timely new album ... 11 Likes

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"Mingus is unique! He jolts with the unexpected and the new. He has something to say and uses every resource to interpret his message. Mingus is ingenuous--gifted in musical expression--listen now to MINGUS..." - Nat Hentoff
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He was another genius in musicGreat album! My dad did some arranging on this album. He turned 90 this year.One of my favorite jazz albums. Wish there was more big band Mingus from this era. Some wonderful solos: Charlie ...

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It was #thisweek in 2000 when Archie Shepp and Roswell Rudd recorded Live in NY with Gracian Moncur, Reggie Workman & Andrew Cyrille which would become a Verve Records release.
https://www.discogs.com/Archie-Shepp-And-Roswell-Rudd-Live-In-New-York/release/3420019 5 Likes

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Photos from Jazz Standard's post Regina Carter on inspiration for her latest album "Swing States":
"A friend and I were discussing how dark and divided the country has become and the topic came up about voting and those who choose not to vote.
When my ... 4 Likes

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September is National Piano Month!
What better way to celebrate than to listen to leading pianist Fred Hersch Live at Jazz Standard album recorded right here on our very own stage?! Released in 2009 by Sunnyside Records: https://sunnysiderecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-jazz-standard 8 Likes

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Recorded on this day at Sound Makers Studios in New York City... September 17, 1962
MONEY JUNGLE
Duke Ellington - Charles Mingus - Max Roach 64 Comments

One of the greatest record ever made. Glad to celebrate!!!The sonic culmination of 3 geniuses! Amazing album.What an amazing album. Still holds up after all these years.

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TUNE IN: Tuesday 9/22 at 7:30pm-8:30pm ET
We are thrilled to be hosting another exclusive online conversation with New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). This time we welcome the extraordinary violinist Regina Carter to discuss her timely new album "Swing ... 1 Comments

Will the conversation be archived or otherwise available to replay? Happening at 4:30 PDT and I'll be at work.

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Festival of New Trumpet Music We had the pleasure of hosting the Festival of New Trumpet Music in the past. This year it is virtual, happening this week, and wraps up September 17th. There is still time to enjoy FONT!
- w/ Dave Douglas
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Sunday, September 13, 1953
The Open Door on West 3rd, NYC
Charlie Parker, 33
Thelonious Monk, 35
Charles Mingus, 31
Roy Haynes, 28
Photograph by Bob Parent 102 Comments

Bird played there a lot according to my friend the late great Black Abstract Expressionist Arthur Monroe, who was a ...Rare session.
Unfortunately, there is no recording of them together.What no one is talking about mural on the wall in the background
Good picture though

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WKCR-FM has been so good to us and the field of jazz over the years. Help the station upgrade its sound boards with a donation by wearing some sweet Charlie Parker garb!
https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/content/charlie-parker-merch?fbclid=IwAR1iJbwHVdce-VkU6Y2I639YBCeEkR6DjK3T5BfilshAyH4PjlB2Qa-fmw0
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Song of the Day: Sonny Rollins - "Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert" - JAZZIZ... #neverforget
Sonny Rollins recorded an album four days after the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. Rollins was living downtown at the time and witnessed the event firsthand. This album "stands as one ... 10 Likes

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The Thingus About Mingus | In The Muse: Performing Arts Blog "The Charles Mingus collection, which holds approximately 15,000 items, was the institution’s first acquisition of a jazz composer’s works and personal papers. It was also the first multi-format jazz collection processed by the Library of Congress Music Division."
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What a great collection! Hope to see it digitized or in-person someday!

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R.I.P. Robert James "Bob" Neloms (March 2, 1942 - July 28, 2020)
Bob Neloms was a jazz pianist, composer, arranger and educator. Neloms won a scholarship contest run by Downbeat in 1959 and subsequently studied at the Berklee College of ... 4 Comments

Brilliant musician.
Rest in peace.Rip🙏🌹RIH🌹🙏

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Photos from Charles Mingus's post Happy 90th Birthday to living legend, Sonny Rollins!
Charles and Sue Mingus with Sonny Rollins at their home in Manhattan Plaza - 1978.
Photo: Mingus Archives 29 Comments

Happy Birthday to such a great musician lots of joy and happiness full of blessingsI remember that specific occasion well! Happy Birthday to the Great Great Sonny Rollins!!!!Happy birthday Sir Sonny Rollins .God bless you do enjoy your day....music winns again wow.

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Remembering tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan on his birthday (September 2, 1931 – March 27, 1993)
Clifford Laconia Jordan was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. While in Chicago, he performed with Max Roach, Sonny Stitt, and some rhythm and blues groups. ... 5 Comments

Clifford was an amazing musician!! Feel so fortunate to have seen and heard his talent at Condon’s in NYC in ...Jaki Byard was a hell of a musician and piano playerThe kat could cook

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