Music director
Charles Mingus
104 years · Arizona, USA · 19 films
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist, pianist, composer, and bandleader. A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered to be one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history, with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Herbie Hancock.
Best known for
Filmography 19
Jazz Club 2
2022 · Actor
Jazz Legends: Charles Mingus & Eric Dolphy - 1964
2022 · contrebasse
Billie
2020 · self
Photographic Memory
2011 · Music
Charles Mingus Quintet - Live in Berlin 1972
2008 · Actor
Jazz Icons: Charles Mingus Live in '64
2007 · himself
Mingus in Greenwich Village
2005 · Himself
The Clown
1998 · Music
Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Weird Nightmare
1993 · Music
Last Date
1991 · Self
Charles Mingus: Epitaph
1990 · Actor, Music
Stations of the Elevated
1981 · Music
Charles Mingus: Live at Montreux 1975
1975 · Himself
Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968
1968 · Himself
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
1964 · Actor
Charles Mingus Sextet
1964 · Self
All Night Long
1962 · Himself - Bass
Shadows
1960 · Music
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