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Mingus, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 246
Housing Units (2000): 136
Land area (2000): 1.553583 sq. miles (4.023761 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.553583 sq. miles (4.023761 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48720
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.539489 N, 98.423449 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76463
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Mingus

The name Mingus may refer to:

  • Charles Mingus (1922-1979), jazz composer and double bass player
    • Sue Mingus, wife of the jazz composer
    • Mingus (Charles Mingus album), 1960 album by Charles Mingus
    • Mingus (Joni Mitchell album), 1979 jazz album by Joni Mitchell with Charles Mingus
    • Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, 1963 album by Charles Mingus
  • Mingus, Texas, a city
  • Mingus Mountain, in the Black Hills of Arizona
  • Mingus Lookout Complex, a fire tower lookout complex in Prescott National Forest, Arizona
  • Max Mingus, a character in a series of books by British thriller writer Nick Stone
Mingus (Joni Mitchell album)

Mingus is the tenth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, and a collaboration with jazz musician Charles Mingus. Recorded in the months before his death, it would be Mingus's final musical project; the album is wholly dedicated to him.

The album is quite experimental, featuring minimalist jazz, overplucked, buzzing acoustic guitars, and even wolves howling through "The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey". All of the lyrics are by Mitchell, while the music for four of the songs was composed by Mingus, three being new tunes, a fourth being his tribute to saxophonist Lester Young from his 1959 classic Mingus Ah Um, " Goodbye Pork Pie Hat", for which Mitchell wrote a set of lyrics.

As with the release preceding, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Mitchell hired personnel from jazz fusion group Weather Report, notably bassist Jaco Pastorius to play on the sessions. Mingus would also mark the first reunion of saxophonist Wayne Shorter and pianist Herbie Hancock in the studio since recording together on Shorter's seminal Native Dancer album, featuring Milton Nascimento, released in September 1974.

The album is spliced with excerpts, which are labelled "(Rap)", from recordings provided by Sue Graham Mingus, including a scat singing interplay between Joni and Mingus, and Charles and Sue arguing over his age at a birthday party. In "Funeral", Mingus and others discuss how long he'll live and what his funeral will be like. He refers to the Vedanta Society and asserts that "I'm going to cut Duke [Ellington]!". "God Must Be a Boogie Man," having taken shape two days after his death, was the only song Mingus was unable to hear. Mitchell suggests in the liner notes that Mingus would have found it hilarious.

The artwork features several paintings by Mitchell of Mingus. It peaked at #17 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart.

Mingus (Charles Mingus album)

Mingus is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus. The album was recorded in October and November 1960 in New York for Nat Hentoff's Candid label.

At this time Mingus was working regularly with a piano-less quartet featuring Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson and Dannie Richmond, as heard on the Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus album also recorded in November 1960. The Mingus album features one track, "Stormy Weather", recorded by the same quartet, plus two tracks recorded by a larger group featuring piano and additional horns.

The track "M.D.M." weaves together the themes from three compositions: Duke Ellington's "Main Stem", Thelonious Monk's "Straight, No Chaser" and Mingus's own "Fifty-First Street Blues". The track "Lock 'Em Up" was inspired by an apparently involuntary period of treatment Mingus underwent at New York's Bellevue psychiatric facility.

Usage examples of "mingus".

It was early yet, and by the time Mingus had done his business, they should be back in the apartment again with no one the wiser.

Save for the room's tall windows, there was no other place Mingus could have gone.

When Mingus started batting the water with his paw and that big blue one splashed him, the keeper said he never saw anything so funny in his whole life.

But the cats wouldn't catch mice in the barracks after your men were quartered there and my wife's cat Mingus, who's normally friendly to everyone, would have nothing to do with you.

In places,' I say, but all I can think of is Mingus and Coltrane eating bowls of pasta.

But how could I live without Betty Carter, Ray Charles, Miles, Bird, Lady Day, Mingus, Jon Hendricks, Carmen Lundy, the Duke?

He had read that the secretary of the interior was going to allow copper mining right in the center of the mingus worm population of South Dakota, perhaps one of the finest mingus worm concentrations in the world.

Gomez turns on NPR and they’re playing Charles Mingus who sounds a little slow to me but then again why not?