Two musicians who played with jazz great Charles Mingus are doing a three-day Arizona tour to celebrate the bassist's birth 100 years ago in Nogales.
Charles Mingus was born on an Army post in Nogales, Arizona, where his father was stationed as part of a The revered jazz bassist and composer was a toddler when his family settled in Los Angeles, where he was largely raised in the Watts neighborhood.
On Friday, April 22, they'll celebrate his actual birthday at Arizona’s newest major jazz club, the Century Room at Hotel Congress in Tucson.Westside Blues and Jazz:Establishing Charles Mingus Memorial Park "And now with a plaque to her on it, it's also her own epitaph. So it began with an epitaph and ends with one."
It was Yusef Lateef who recommended McPherson and trumpet player Lonnie Hillyer as suitable replacements in need of a gig."And for at least about two weeks, Mingus had two saxophone players, Eric Dolphy and myself, and two trumpet players. After two weeks, both of those guys cut out. But that was the beginning of my career with him.""I learned a lot from Mingus, especially in terms of composition," McPherson says.
Being based in New York City put Mingus and his band right in the mix of all that social flux, McPherson says. With regard to the volatile side of Mingus, McPherson was spared the fearsome temperament that led to Mingus being thought of as the Angry Man of Jazz.
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