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| Charles Mingus Dynasty Band in Moscow Charles Mingus Dynasty Band perfoms on October 21-23 at Le Club, Moscow. The Mingus Dynasty Band was formed in 1979 to carry on the legacy of bandleader Charles Mingus and to perform his great repertory of American composition - the largest, after Duke Ellington, in American music - which he left behind. Its first appearance at Carnegie Hall in New York City in the spring of 1979, as part of a two-day Mingus tribute a few months after Mingus death. Members of the Mingus Dy-nasty, subsequently became part of the 31-piece orchestra which premiered Mingus two-hour masterpiece, Epitaph, at Lincoln Center in 1989. It was absorbed into the Mingus Big Band which has ranged from a septet to a quintet and has until recently been performing in New York at the Fez, Un-der the Time Cafe, every Thursday since the Fall of 1991. After the closing of Fez, we moved to Joe s Pub at the Public Theater on March 24. The Min-gus Big Band is playing every Tuesday at Iridium Jazz club. Most Re-cently, a Mingus Dynasty Quintet, made up of younger members of the Big Band (as well as an occasional musician who played with Mingus himself,) began to tour. Their first performance took place at the Boston Conservatory of Arts, in connection with the screening of the recent documentary, Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog . write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |