Album: Cornell 1964 by Charles Mingus (1964)
Genre: Jazz | Mood: Excitable
Record Label: Blue Note Records
Format: Live

Description: Cornell 1964 is a live album by the Charles Mingus Sextet, featuring Eric Dolphy. It was recorded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York on March 18, 1964.

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, Blue Note Records


Cornell 1964 is a live album by the Charles Mingus Sextet, featuring Eric Dolphy. It was recorded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York on March 18, 1964.

Cornell 1964

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