Clear Channel is playing a new tune May 6, 2008
"Youll hear a song from the Beatles, followed by Hot Chip and thats followed by Charles Mingus," says Eric Szmanda, producer and host of erockster. com. (USA Today -- Tech)
MCHS to present Dimensions in Jazz on Monday May 4, 2008
Progressive jazz composer Charles Mingus popular tune Better Get It In Your Soul will then follow. Student soloists will include Chris Dunlap, Corrine Muyskens, Jessica Palmer, Elise Duvall, Ben Janson, Brett Mulkey, Erika Pohlman, Michael Betz, Danny Shook, and Matt Harken. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Ozzie Cadena, 83, producer for jazz musicians Apr 23, 2008
From 1954 to 1959, Cadena was an in-house producer and At for Savoy, a small but influential label based in Newark, N.J., and helped arrange for dozens of important sessions, including ones by Charles Mingus, Little Jimmy Scott, Yusef Lateef, Milt Jackson, Marion Williams, the Ward Singers and Shirley Caesar. He also produced the first albums by Cannonball Adderley and the J.J. Johnson-Kai Winding double-trombone group. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Music lovers turn out for Mingus jazz festival Apr 23, 2008
The first Charles Mingus Jazz Festival in Ambos Nogales since 1993 drew a small crowd to the sun-dappled lawn at the park behind city hall on April 19, where several Southern Arizona bands performed. Other jazz lovers parked themselves at Nogales High School, where half a dozen bands played in the performing arts center. (Nogales International, AZ)
Take a break, enjoy other sights, sounds Apr 19, 2008
The Charles Mingus Jazz Festival will be held in Nogales on Saturday, followed by a performance at the Teatro Auditorio on Avenida Obregon on April 23 starting at 7 p.m. Tomorrow's program brings together jazz groups from Tucson High School, the Arizona Jazz Academy, Pima Community College, the University of Arizona, private groups, and the Nogales High School jazz combo in two separate venues ... Former colleague Ken Tittelbaugh contacted me to see if I would be willing to promote the Charles... (Nogales International, AZ)
Mingus Jazz Festival Apr 16, 2008
Covering all of Santa Cruz County, AZ - Nogales International. It's enough to drive a jazz lover crazy. (Nogales International, AZ)
She's 'the bus driver of the band' Apr 8, 2008
Unsurprisingly, Disterheft lists Charles Mingus - a bassist famous for being able to drive and control a band - as one of her major influences. "Mingus is fantastic," she says. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
How King's Assassination Changed Black Music Apr 5, 2008
However, with the exception of songs like "I'm Black and I'm Proud" and the work of Nina Simone, Charles Mingus and Max Roach, before King's killing most music engaged in little social commentary. . (Slate)
Auktyon: Rock band of the former USSR Mar 28, 2008
One critic narrowed down the Auktyon (pronounced as "auction") sound to somewhere between "tight, jazzy arrangements of Charles Mingus and Radiohead 'Kid A' style." The comparison seems right and wrong at the same time. "I have no idea how to describe our music," says Rubanov, who joined the band about 1983, when Auktyon solidified its traditional lineup. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The sounds of Scorsese Mar 27, 2008
Taken on its own, the music is a lush meditation on the snaky-noir jazz of Charles Mingus, all loops and coils, suggesting the serpentine involutions of the city that makes the titular cabbie, Travis Bickle, into the dangerous creature he is. But the New Yorker critic Pauline Kael took exception: "[The movie], with its suppressed sex and suppressed violence, is already pitched so high that it doesn't need ominous percussion, snake rattles and rippling scales. These musical nudges belong back... (Independent)
From Golden State to golden culture Mar 23, 2008
And the jazz players who came of age on Los Angeles's Central Avenue - Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, Teddy Edwards, later on Ornette Coleman - made music far removed from the unemphatic, even pallid sounds of such stalwarts of West Coast jazz as Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, and Dave Brubeck. The point is how culturally varied and rich California was in the '50s - and how good the state was at what we'd now call 2. (Boston Globe)
Pop Quiz: Steve Miller Mar 23, 2008
As a kid, I met Les Paul and Charles Mingus and a bunch of people like that, and they were musicians and that's really what I wanted to be, so that's where I set my goals. Les Paul is 92 and he's still working. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Bouncing back Mar 15, 2008
You really want to like the people you re playing with, Feinberg says, proceeding to tell an infamous story about Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach recording Money Jungle together. Evidently, Mingus tried to storm out, and Ellington had to bring him forcibly back to the sessions. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Dorothy Podber, wild child of New York art scene; at 75 Feb 26, 2008
Ms. Podber was an artist and helped run the Nonagon Gallery in Manhattan in the late '50s and early '60s, which showed the work of a young Yoko Ono and was known for jazz concerts by performers such as Charles Mingus. But she became famous, and infamous, in the art world mostly as a muse and a coconspirator of more prominent artists such as Ray Johnson, with whom she staged impromptu happenings on Manhattan streets. (Boston Globe)
Teo Macero, producer, Miles Davis collaborator Feb 26, 2008
He was musical editor for Duke Ellington, pianist Thelonious Monk, and bassist Charles Mingus. Later, as a producer he exerted an even greater influence on the music and redefined the meaning of studio production. (Boston Globe)
Music producer Teo Macero dies Feb 26, 2008
He started working with Charles Mingus in the Jazz Composers Workshop and made records for Mingus and Max Roach's Debut Records. Macero also worked as a tenor saxophonist, playing with Mingus, Teddy Charles, the Sandole Brothers and others. (Variety)
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Wyatt "Bull" Ruther Feb 26, 2008
Ruther worked in a period in which very few bassists stepped out of their supporting role into the spotlight - exceptions were Jimmy Blanton and Charles Mingus. Ruther was the definition of a journeyman, but his journeys took him to some pretty lofty heights. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Teo Macero, famous record producer, dies Feb 23, 2008
Helping to build Miles Davis albums like "Bitches Brew, "In a Silent Way" and "Get Up With It," Macero (pronounced TEE-oh mah-SEH-roh) used techniques partly inspired by composers like Edgard Varese, who had been using tape-editing and electronic effects to help shape the music. Such techniques were then new to jazz and have largely remained separate from it since. But the electric-jazz albums he helped Davis create especially "Bitches Brew," which remains one of the best-selling albums by a... (Albany Times Union)
Dorothy Podber, 75, artist and trickster Feb 20, 2008
Podber was an artist in her own right and in the late '50s and early '60s helped to run the Nonagon Gallery in Manhattan, which showed the work of a young Yoko Ono and was known for jazz concerts by performers like Charles Mingus. But she became famous, or infamous, in the art world mostly as a muse and a co-conspirator of more prominent artists like Ray Johnson, with whom she staged impromptu happenings on Manhattan streets. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Drummer's birthday show displays jazz guitarist's gifts Jan 30, 2008
Drummer Rakalam Bob Moses has played with Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Pat Metheny, among many others, and his late-'60s band, Free Spirits, was among the pioneers of jazz/rock fusion. He also teaches at New England Conservatory. (Boston Globe)
No Boundries Jan 27, 2008
Then she beefed up her piano skills studying with two of the 20th century's greatest jazz pianists, Jaki Byard and Don Pullen, both of whom had been members of Charles Mingus' bands. "They were good teachers for me," she says, "but I was never really cut out to be a student, and I was never really cut out to play someone else's music.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Last of the great innovators Jan 26, 2008
" Of course they did. Coleman looked weird too. When praise came it was rarely straightforward. The great bassist-composer Charles Mingus said, "I don't think he could play a major scale in tune but he's making us all sound like we're playing cliches. " Miles Davis was at first enthusiastic but later said that Coleman played as if he had psychological problems. I suggest Davis was trying to screen the fact that he intended to absorb some of Coleman's ideas. "It's possible," Coleman says, adding... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Lost and found Jan 20, 2008
Certainly, nothing in "Jerry Maguire" can match the look on Tom Cruise's face when he hears the feral thunder of Charles Mingus' "Haitian Fight Song," urged upon him as a romantic aid on his first date with Renee Zellweger. Who knows, maybe it was still sounding in Cruise's ears when he started jumping up and down on Oprah's couch. (Boston Globe)
Groove Yard: Rockridge shop sustains LP life even after MP3 success Jan 20, 2008
-- Bassist Charles Mingus' "Black Saint and the Sinner Lady" from 1963 for $45. One of the great jazz geniuses, Mingus was a deeply frustrated, angry individual who railed against racial injustice before it became acceptable to do so in the '60s. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Jazz Composer Charles Mingus Jan 16, 2008
The Charles Mingus New York Town Hall concert of 1962 was a very confused event that ended with 2 stage hands - during an impromptu encore based on Ellington's 'In a Mellowtone' - walking on stage and, to a howl of disapproval from the audience, pulling the curtains shut as the musicians played ... The music recorded that chilly October night just over 45 years ago is extraordinarily idiosyncratic, and instantly recognisable as the work of Charles Mingus. (Suite101.com)
If I ruled Pittsburgh ... Dec 30, 2007
Back in the 1950s, the Grill served as one of the hubs of Pittsburgh nightlife, hopping six nights a week while playing host to such giants as Max Roach, John Coltrane and Charles Mingus. A facility dedicated to music would be the perfect legacy. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Cheatham's passing marks 2007 Dec 28, 2007
Charles McPherson, the longtime saxophonist for Charles Mingus, lived here, as did Barney Kessel, James Moody and Mundell Lowe. But they played only infrequent gigs in town, living here but mostly playing elsewhere. (North County Times)
Highs and lows of jazz in '07 Dec 27, 2007
Amid the wash of CDs and DVDs, the Jazz Icons DVD series (Naxos/Select) must be singled out for making available exceptional concert footage of such greats as Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan and Wes Montgomery. Just missing out on the top five CDs were the Necks (Townsville), Keith Jarrett (My Foolish Heart), Steve Hunter Band (Dig My Garden), Anat Fort (A Long Story) and GEST8 (Kaleidoscope). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
What's new on video Dec 18, 2007
The artists in the second series of "Jazz Icons" include Duke Ellington, Wes Montgomery, Charles Mingus, Sarah Vaughan, Dave Brubeck, Dexter Gordon and John Coltrane. The latter is filmed in Germany in 1960 and '61, and in Belgium in '65, with McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones playing on the last two dates. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
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As jazz great Charles Mingus famously said, "You can't improvise on nothing, man; you've gotta improvise on something.". Keith Sawyer, author of the insightful book Group Genius, spent years studying the work of jazz groups and improvisational theater ensembles. (FastCompany)
Acts & Openings Nov 16, 2007
Wayne has worked with artists as diverse as Jimmy Reed, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rhodes, Jeff Healey and Joe Louis Walker. He has won two Juno awards, has won the Maple Blues Award for Piano Player of the Year three times, and has won 14 awards from Real Blues Magazine, including Blues Artist of the Year. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Mocean Worker: Artist looks to change the face of jazz Nov 9, 2007
The elder Dorn oversaw recordings by Charles Mingus, Kirk, Les McCann, Eddie Harris and many others, incidentally giving his son access to an amazing record collection and exposure to musicians like McCann, Art Neville and Lou Rawls, who regularly visited the Dorn home in Philadelphia. "My girlfriend and I were having dinner at my dad's last night," Dorn said, "and we were talking about that Tom and Jerry cartoon ('Solid Serenade,' 1946) that uses Louis Jordan's 'Is You Is or Is You Ain't My... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Hemphill program explores composer's moods and magic Oct 20, 2007
In "Mingus Gold," a three-movement tribute to Charles Mingus for string quartet, the cello, instead of carrying an insistent bass, becomes an eloquent soloist, with a rare singing line. The Daedalus players were unfailingly precise and completely involved. (Boston Globe)
Mavis Staples: Singing truth to power Oct 19, 2007
In jazz, Charles Mingus' Fables of Faubus caustically rebuked Gov. Orval Faubus for blocking the integration of Little Rock Central High School, while Max Roach's Freedom Now. Suite emphatically called for an end to Jim Crow. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Richard A. Graham, 86, helped found NOW Oct 10, 2007
a brother, Robert, of Simms, Texas; a sister, Sue Graham Mingus, the widow of the jazz bassist Charles Mingus, of Manhattan; 13 grandchildren; and 2 great-grandchildren. Graham, who was a Democrat from the late 1960s on, was sometimes publicly critical of NOW in recent years, faulting what he saw as its emphasis on abortion rights and equality for lesbians at the expense of more general issues like child care and health care. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Public radio Sep 29, 2007
Tijuana Moods: Charles Mingus. 5 p.m. All Things Considered from NPR. (Montana Standard, MT)
Herbie Hancock keys on Joni Mitchell's lyrics Sep 23, 2007
Familiar, because Hancock, the great jazz pianist, has known Mitchell since 1979, when he and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, his friend and fellow alumnus of the classic Miles Davis quintet, teamed up with the singer on a project she was developing with Charles Mingus. Though Mingus passed away that year, causing the album, "Mingus," to come out incomplete, the sessions formed the basis of a friendship that would grow richer over the years. (Boston Globe)
Finally, an archive CD Sep 16, 2007
" That's obviously just scratching the surface. Practically all the greats of jazz and blues - and many of rock - have played Monterey, usually more than once: Charles Mingus, Billie Holiday, Earl Hines, Elvin Jones, T-Bone Walker, Big Brother Holding Company with Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Joe Williams, Erroll Garner, Bill Evans, Bo Diddley, Betty Carter, Chick Corea, John Scofield ... the list goes on and on. "I think the Monterey Jazz Festival brand stands for something, a community and a sense... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
50 Years Of Jazz Sep 16, 2007
Over the next few years, modernists including Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk shared bills with older masters such as Ben Webster and Jack Teagarden. "Monterey has always had a cachet about it," says Rollins, who plays festivals around the world. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
11 Things: Max Roach (1924-2007) Sep 7, 2007
Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis ... Moment of truth: Toronto's Massey Hall in 1953 with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and Charles Mingus. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Singer and ex-addict Ed Reed finds redemption in a CD and gigs Aug 23, 2007
Teenage bassist Charles Mingus, whose sister lived across the street from the Reed family, gave the boy, then 11, his first jazz lesson. "He taught me how to hear music, how to sing chord changes," Reed says. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Jazz World Mourns Loss of Be-Bop 'Architect' Aug 20, 2007
VOA News - Jazz World Mourns Loss of Bebop 'Architect. A trusted source of newsand information since 1942. (Voice of America)
Max Roach, Pioneer of Modern Jazz, 1924-2007 Aug 19, 2007
" Though not the first bop drummer (Kenny Clarke earns that distinction), Roach was widely acknowledged as the most influential and at times the most controversial. His musical imagination, like his flying hands, never stood still from his earliest days in gospel bands to experiments with the drum ensemble M Boom to his late career interests in hip hop and rap.Maxwell Lemuel Roach was born in Newland, NC, and moved with his family to the Bedfrd-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn at age four.... (Jazz Police)
Obituary: Max Roach Aug 18, 2007
Together with Charles Mingus - with whom he had set up the shortlived Debut label in 1952 - he organised the Newport Rebels concert, featuring musicians allegedly ignored by the main Newport festival. Roach even interrupted a Miles Davis Carnegie Hall charity performance because he disapproved of the beneficiary. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Innovative, influential drummer dies at 83 Aug 18, 2007
In 1952, Roach and bassist-composer Charles Mingus founded Debut Records. Among the short-lived label's releases was a famed 1953 Toronto performance in Massey Hall, featuring Roach, Mingus, Parker, Gillespie and pianist Bud Powell. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Max Roach, 83; created rhythmic foundation of bebop, expanded role of drums Aug 17, 2007
Mr. Roach was the drummer at the "Greatest Jazz Concert Ever," the title of the resulting album at Toronto's Massey Hall, with Parker, Powell, Gillespie, and Charles Mingus in 1953. A two-time recipient of the French Grand Prix du Disque, Mr. Roach also played at various times with Benny Carter, Oscar Pettiford, J.J. Johnson, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Stan Getz, Herbie Nichols, and Abbey Lincoln, his first wife. (Boston Globe)
Castellanos brings Trumpet Summit to town Aug 17, 2007
Castellanos ended up playing in McPherson's band, the respected saxophonist who spent a long stint in the band of legendary bassist Charles Mingus. (Castellanos took the trumpet chair once held briefly by Brian Lynch, also profiled in this issue. (North County Times)
At this concert, her recordings were the star Aug 16, 2007
Past courses have spotlighted likely suspects Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and Charles Mingus, as well as worthy if less obvious ones such as Abbey Lincoln. This year's choice was of the latter sort: singer Chris Connor. (Boston Globe)
More of this story Aug 14, 2007
That hooked him on the music of Charles Mingus, Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk. "I actually sat in on one song with Miles Davis," Chase said Sunday at a press conference. (Newport Daily News, RI)
Ozomatli rocks State Dept. tour in Cairo Aug 1, 2007
Mostly African Americans, who faced discrimination at home, musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Charles Mingus and Ornette Coleman were "jazz ambassadors," playing gigs bankrolled by the U.S. government all over the world, including Communist countries. Such cultural outreach faded over the decades but has been revived in recent years by Karen Hughes, the U.S. undersecretary of State for public diplomacy. (Los Angeles Times)
Bringing a local jazz master back home Jul 27, 2007
Kordalewski doesn't hesitate to rank Makanda as one of the great jazz composers, in the class, he says, of Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, and Charles Mingus. "He was that brilliant," he says. (Boston Globe)
Charles Mingus recording strikes a chord Jul 19, 2007
July 18, 2007, 12:16 PM EDT Here's a prediction you can bank: This year will yield no more important and exhilarating archival discovery for jazz fans than "Cornell 1964" (Blue Note), a live concert by the Charles Mingus Sextet, featuring the legendary reed player Eric Dolphy. It is being released this week. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Police patrolling again Jul 13, 2007
After the Police stopped (the band never officially broke up), he released more than 10 albums of his eclectic guitar playing, including a few knotty albums with King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp, jazz-rock tributes to Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk and Brazilian music. For the reunion tour, chestnuts are being taken apart and reconstructed nightly onstage. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
Stairway to heavenly music Jul 1, 2007
Living in a second-floor apartment above the old Crawford Grill on Wylie Avenue, Brown routinely stepped downstairs to hear such giants as Charles Mingus and Erroll Garner, John Coltrane and Max Roach. She broke bread several times with trumpeter Roy Eldridge and comforted saxophonist Sonny Stitt as he sat on her sofa, shaking from heroin withdrawals. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Rockin' The Jett Set Jun 22, 2007
The seven-piece Mingus Dynasty, will celebrate the 85th birthday of the late jazz great Charles Mingus at Madison Square Park (23rd Street at Broadway; madisonsquare. park. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Famous five: Why The Traveling Wilburys are the ulimate supergroup Jun 21, 2007
The most famous are probably Miles Davis's two quintets that aligned the trumpeter with the likes of John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Cannonball Adderley and Wayne Shorter, and the great bebop summit of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and Max Roach that produced the legendary Massey Hall concert of 1953. The first rock'n'roll supergroup was undoubtedly the impromptu meeting of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis at Sun Studios, the off-the-cuff... (Belfast Telegraph)
Are jazz fans slowly scatting? Jun 15, 2007
In that year, the following people were still alive and performing: Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk, Ray Charles, Charles Mingus, Stan Getz and Dizzy Gillespie. Back then, Wein could call upon any one of these artists to perform at a large venue such as Carnegie Hall with a better-than-reasonable expectation that all or most of the seats would be filled. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Joshua Redman Jun 14, 2007
Redman structured his solo, however, to go hand in hand with the song's gleeful spirit and hopefulness, a tack he took later on with "I'm an Old Cowhand," which segued into a dense and lulling reading of Charles Mingus' "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat." He drew on Middle Eastern tones and the soprano sax's human voice-like characteristics on his most linear composition, "Zarafah"; elsewhere, he pushed himself and his band into whirlwinds and torrents that were as natural as the tender moments. Redman... (Variety)
Shelby kicks off jazz series Jun 12, 2007
The group plays a wide range of music, from Duke Ellington to Charles Mingus. The orchestra features Shelby on acoustic bass, Adam Shulman on piano, Darren Johnston on trumpet, Jeff Marrs on drums and Faye Carol as a featured vocalist. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
A whirl through the old and new Jun 3, 2007
Tuesday's release of "We All Love Ella," a salute to Lady Fitzgerald, caps a month of eclectic new jazz albums, from a sendup of the Andrews Sisters to a lost Charles Mingus gem ... CHARLES MINGUS In Paris: The Complete America Session ( Sunnyside) ... The Charles Mingus vaults have been opening wider, and "In Paris: The Complete America Session" gives us one of its best documents yet. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Guillermo Klein Jun 1, 2007
" Lately, Klein has been committing his ears to the Brazilian singer Djavan's album "Milagreiro," Gyrgy Ligeti's "Hungarian Rock" and "everything" by the French composer Olivier Messiaen. Add in other inspirations -- he cites Duke Ellington's "Take the 'A' Train," Wayne Shorter's "Dance Cadaverous," Charles Mingus' "Fables of Faubus," Herbie Hancock's "Cantaloupe Island," "desert island discs" like the Beatles' "White Album" and Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life," plus the pivotal 1980s... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Epitaph by Charles Mingus May 18, 2007
Presented by Los Angeles Philharmonic, Let My Children Hear Music/The Charles Mingus Institute and Sue Mingus ... "Epitaph" is one of jazz's greatest indulgences, a wildly diverse, multi-part, partly-open-ended suite for double big band that its creator Charles Mingus once called a symphony. (Variety)
Guide: Summer Jazz Season May 17, 2007
Also, the Sonny Fortune Quartet, Matt Wilson's Arts and Crafts with singer and jazz elder statesman, Bill Henderson, plus the Mingus Big Band, perpetuating and extending the legacy of the late jazz genius, Charles Mingus. Aug. 5: Rolando Matias and the Afro-Rican Ensemble featuring Bobby Matos; the Dave Stryker Organ Trio, Brazilian pianist Helio Alves and his trio, saxophonist Don Braden and his Contemporary Standards Ensemble, plus the Charlie Haden Orchestra, creators of the artistically... (CTNow.com)
Telluride Jazz Celebration To Feature Scofield May 12, 2007
According to the Web site allmusic, Scofield is "one of the "big three" of current jazz guitarists (along with Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell)." Early in his career, Scofield recorded with Miles Davis and Charles Mingus. More recently, he has been releasing albums that range from traditional jazz to fusion. (CBS 4, CO)
Big Bear has the rhythm May 4, 2007
Tabor is a cool cat who strums the electric bass trying to revive the sounds of acclaimed bass player Charles Mingus, he said. Tabor s iPod is filled with 5,000 songs and jazz musicians like Mingus take up a sizable chunk. (Big Bear Grizzly, CA)
