Sue Mingus
Sue Mingus | |
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Birth name | Sue Graham |
Born | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Record producer, band manager |
Labels | Mingus Music |
Associated acts | Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty, Mingus Orchestra |
Website | www |
Sue Graham Mingus is an American record producer and band manager. She is the widow of jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus.
After Charles Mingus' death from Lou Gehrig's disease[1] in 1979, Sue Mingus established bands to perform his music, beginning with the Mingus Dynasty, a septet that tours internationally and performs regularly at Jazz Standard in New York City. The Dynasty alternates with the Mingus Big Band and Mingus Orchestra.[2] Mingus produced several albums with these bands. In 2011, Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album.[3][4]
She produced two legacy albums: Charles Mingus: Music Written for Monterey, 1965 (Mingus Music, 2006) and Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy, Cornell 1964 (Blue Note, 2007).[4][5]
In 1989, Sue Mingus produced Mingus's Epitaph for thirty-one musicians in its premiere at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center and again in 2007 when it toured four cities and was broadcast by National Public Radio.[6]
Through Mingus's publishing company Jazz Workshop, Mingus has published educational books, Charles Mingus: More than a Fake Book, Charles Mingus: More than a Play Along, dozens of Mingus Big Band charts, guitar and piano charts and a series for students called Simply Mingus, all distributed by Hal Leonard Publishers.
In 2002, she published a memoir, Tonight at Noon: a Love Story, that was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book.[7][8]
In 2009, through Let My Children Hear Music, the nonprofit created to promote Mingus' music, she presented the First Annual Charles Mingus High School Competition[9] at Manhattan School of Music with Justin DiCioccio.[10]
References[]
- ^ Johnson, Joyce (12 May 2002). "Epitaph for an Angry Man". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
- ^ Stewart, Zan (5 May 2009). "The music of Mingus lives on in a weekly series". NJ.com. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- ^ "Live at Jazz Standard – Mingus Big Band Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Murphy, Sean (5 August 2010). "Sue Mingus and the Mingus Big Band: Letting Our Children Hear Music". PopMatters. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
- ^ Deluke, R.J. (5 November 2007). "Sue Graham Mingus: All the Things You Could Be By Now If Charles' Wife Was Your Flamekeeper". All About Jazz. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
- ^ "Mingus' Magnum Opus: 'Epitaph' In Concert". NPR.org. 24 July 2008. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- ^ "Notable Books". The New York Times. 8 December 2002. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- ^ Olson, Paul (12 July 2005). "Sue Mingus: "First and Foremost a Composer"". All About Jazz. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- ^ Official announcement "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2009-08-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ NY Press article on High School Competition http://www.nypress.com/article-19427-thirty-years-on-the-music-remains-strong.html
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- Living people
- Record producers from Wisconsin
- Charles Mingus
- American memoirists
- American women memoirists
- Musicians from Milwaukee
- American women record producers
- University School of Milwaukee alumni