Sue Graham Mingus

Susan "Sue" Graham Mingus is an American writer and publicist who now works as a music producer. She was the fourth and last wife of Charles Mingus .

Live and act

Graham Mingus comes from a middle class family from Milwaukee . After graduating from Smith College in 1952 and two years in Paris, she lived in Italy with the sculptor Alberto Ungaro (1917–1968), whom she married. In 1960 she moved with him and their two children from their marriage to New Jersey and then to Manhattan. She made an appearance in the Robert Frank short film OK End Here in 1963 . Known to Charles Mingus since 1964 , they moved in together in 1973. The official marriage took place three years later. In the 1960s she was the editor of several underground newspapers such as New York Free Press , its branch New York Highschool Press and counterculture magazines such as Changes , in which articles by Mingus such as Open Letter to the Avant-Garde and excerpts from his autobiographical novel Beneath the Underdog have appeared.

After Mingus' death in January 1979, Graham Mingus helped found various repertoire bands that maintain her husband's work, such as the Mingus Dynasty , the Mingus Big Band and the newer Mingus Orchestra. She produced several albums with these bands that received a total of six Grammy nominations.

1989 Sue was Mingus producer of Mingus' work Epitaph , which under the direction of Gunther Schuller first performed by 31 musicians in the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and again in 2007 presented, was as it shows in four American cities and a transfer in the National Public Radio experienced . The album was released on Columbia Records in 1990 . She is also the editor of the Paris concert recording from 1964 under the title Revenge! The Legendary Paris Concert (1996). In her own words, she founded her own label, Revenge Records , in order to bring out the European concerts of Mingus in high quality, which had previously only appeared as black pressings. Sue Mingus sees herself in a tireless fight against the robbery of Charles Mingus, which she personally removes from record stores worldwide.

In 2002, Pantheon ( Random House ) published her memories of her life with Mingus under the title Tonight at Noon: a Love Story .

In 2006 and 2007 she produced two more albums of her husband's music, Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy Cornell in 1964 , which appeared on Blue Note , and the re-release of Music Written for Monterey in 1965, Not Heard ... Played in Its Entirety at UCLA on her label Sue Mingus Music .

Sue Mingus published two textbooks, Charles Mingus: More than a Fake Book , Charles Mingus: More than a Play Along , and a series of sheet music from the Mingus Big Band, for guitar and piano charts, at Mingus' own publishing house, Jazz Workshop, Inc. and a student series entitled Simply Mingus distributed by Hal Leonard Publishers.

In 2009 she and the non-profit organization Let My Children Hear Music hosted the first annual Charles Mingus High School Competition at the Manhattan School of Music with Justin DiCioccio.

Trivia

Charles Mingus dedicated his composition The I of Hurricane Sue to her , which first appeared on his album Let My Children Hear Music (1972). Another composition dedicated to her is Sue's Changes , which was initially based on Portrait and appeared on the album Changes One (1975).

Fonts

• Sue Graham Mingus Toonight at Noon. A Lovestory. Nautilus: Hamburg 2003

Web links

• Biographical portrait at mingusmingusmingus.com
• Sue Graham Mingus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sue Mingus Interview by breakthruradio.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Smith Mix
2. ↑ Alberto Ungaro ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Sue Graham Mingus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
4. ↑ Scott Saul Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't Harvard University Press 2003, p. 328
5. ↑ See Brian Priestley , Mingus , London, Quartet Books, 1982, pp. 178-180.
6. ↑ Information at nj.com
7. ↑ Biographical portrait at mingusmingusmingus.com
8. ↑ Information in NPR
9. ^ Sue Mingus in a foreword to Todd Jenkins I know what I know: The Music of Charles Mingus , Praeger 2006
10. ^ Sue Mingus, Revenge
11. ^ Note in the New York Times
12. ^ "Sue Mingus: 'First and Foremost a Composer'" in All About Jazz
13. ↑ Note at mingusmingusmingus.com ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 424 kB) 
14. ^ Press article about the High School Competition
15. ↑ NY1 TV segment via the competition  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ^ Brian Priestley: Mingus: A Critical Biography , Quartet Books, London, 1982, ISBN 0-7043-2275-7