biography
pronunciation:
[mingguhs]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1922–79)
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| biography:
| Jazz bassist, composer, and bandleader, born in Nogales, Arizona, USA. He played the cello with the Los Angeles Junior Philharmonic Orchestra before becoming a bassist with traditional-style bands. As a child, he had sung Gospel music, and his later work as a leader and composer brought elements of this background together with modern and avant-garde ideas. During the 1940s, he worked with big bands, and from 1953 led groups called the ‘Jazz Workshop’, which experimented with atonality and other devices of European symphonic music. His most powerful and individualistic music came later, such as Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting (1959) and Fables of Faubus (1960). |
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