Kevin Ellington Mingus

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Kevin Ellington Mingus (* 1. October 1976 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American jazz - bassist , producer and a grandson of Charles Mingus .

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Kevin Ellington Mingus grew up with his single mother in a Jewish family, with almost no contact with his father Eugene Mingus and thus also with his grandfather's family. He started playing guitar at the age of ten, before switching to the double bass as a member of the San Diego Youth Orchestra (at which point he did not know that his grandfather was playing this instrument). Through Jimmy Cheatham he was accepted into a mentoring program at the University of California, San Diego , where he played in the university big band until his graduation. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley , he formed a duo with the pianist Vijay Iyer , worked on his 1998 album Architextures and worked with Amiri Baraka . He also played in Anthony Brown's Asian American Jazz Orchestra, with Wadada Leo Smith and George Lewis .

In the 1990s he stayed in Argentina to continue his studies , where he studied tango , bandoneon and composition with Nestor Marconi at the “Manuel de Falla” music conservatory . After returning to the USA in the early 2000s, he played a. a. in a duo with saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa , with whom he performed in a concert series at Carnegie Hall from 2000 to 2003 ; he also worked with Glenn Horiuchi , Francis Wong ( Legends & Legacies 2004) and Miya Masoka ; in New York with the theater company DADAnewyork .

Mingus lived in Berlin from 2006 . In his work as a musician he was also active there for the English Theater ; He was also involved in multimedia projects and produced documentaries, including an unfinished portrait of his grandfather Mingus on Mingus (which initially had the working title 20 Fingers - A True Jazz Legend ). He also collaborated with filmmaker Sasa Oreskovic ( Soundless Fall of the Gravitation ). In Berlin he worked in experimental projects with Chico Mello and Andrea Neumann ( Sololala ), and Sadiq Bey / Gebhard Ullmann ( Slow the Ear , 2009) and in 2006 in Sadiq Bey's performance of the poems of Sun Ra .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The film contains interviews and musical contributions by Amiri Baraka, Marcus Belgrave , Teddy Charles , Ornette Coleman , Buddy Collette , Ted Curson , Don Friedman , Henry Grimes , Hank Jones , Lee Konitz , Charlie Mariano , Charles McPherson , Joni Mitchell , Walter Norris , Sonny Rollins and members of the Mingus family.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical portrait
  2. ↑ Discogs
  3. ↑ a b biography ( memento from July 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Information on DADAnewyork
  5. ↑ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (May 2007)
  6. ↑ Information about the film (DOK.guest 2011)
  7. ↑ Information from Ausland-Berlin
  8. ↑ Note in the Gebhard Ullmann discography
  9. ↑ Note from DIE ZEIT online
personal data
SURNAME Mingus, Kevin Ellington
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California