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"CHARLES" Mingus??
I thought he was always called "Charlie" Mingus?
He actually preferred Charles, and on his albums he was usually billed as "Charles Mingus" or just
"Mingus."
His idol was Duke Ellington, yet he's also the only musician Ellington ever fired from his band,
personally, when Mingus got to spend what turned out a very short spell with the Ellington band in the
early 1950s.
Yet they recorded together in 1962, in a trio with Max Roach, for the album
Money Jungle---
on the cover of which may have been the only time Mingus was billed as "Charlie Mingus" on a
record cover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZZCxQrM_aA