Album: Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop by Charles Mingus (1966)
Genre: Jazz | Mood: Excitable
Format: Live

Description: Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop is a live album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus recorded in San Francisco in 1964 and released on the Fantasy label in 1966.

Artist Background: Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 - January 5, 1979) was a highly influential American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader. Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third Stream, free jazz, and classical music. Yet Mingus avoided categorization, forging his own brand of music that fused tradition with unique and unexplored realms of jazz. He once cited Duke Ellington and church... Part of the USA music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Related Artists: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy

Music Scene: Part of the USA music scene. Associated with Jazz movement.

Tags: Jazz, Excitable, 1960s, Live


Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop is a live album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus recorded in San Francisco in 1964 and released on the Fantasy label in 1966.

Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop

Charles Mingus

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