![]() ![]() Deeply influenced by pioneering black artists such as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, with whom he collaborated, but just two years younger than the great innovator of modern jazz, Charlie Parker, with whom he also performed, Mingus is like a bridge joining the two eras. ![]() ![]() A bear of a man with a wicked, often forked tongue, a voracious sexual appetite, and a reputation for irascibility, even violence, Mingus was one of the most inspirational and dynamic of the golden generation of African-American musicians that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Larger than life is a phrase that could have been invented for Charles Mingus. The occasion also marks Barker’s appointment as associate artist with the RTE CO, following his triumphant appearance with the orchestra in 2019, conducting his own arrangements of Miles Davis’ iconic Kind of Blue. April 22nd marks 100 years since the birth of Charles Mingus, the great American bassist, composer and bandleader, and to celebrate the occasion, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra has commissioned star UK trumpeter and arranger Guy Barker to orchestrate some of Mingus’ best-loved music, to be performed in Dublin (Thursday 21st) and Cork (Friday 22nd). ![]()
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