Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. Charles Mingus Jr. was a multiracial American Jazz double bassist, composer and pianist. He is considered to be one of the best jazz musicians of all time. He had a career that spanned over a course of  three decades. Throughout his career he collaborated with other popular jazz musicians such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker  and Louis Armstrong. He was born in 1922 in Nogales Arizona to his mother who is of Asian, English and South-American descent and to his father who was of African American and [...]