Charles Mingus
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Mingus answered critics who said his amibitious, evocative music didn't swing enough by releasing an album going back to the earliest of black musical exression, the blues and New Orleans jazz, and may possibly be one of his finest.
"Charles Mingus is one of the greatest American composers, and one of the two or three best in jazz."--New York Times Essential Library Jazz
6) Money jungle
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Duke Ellington is joined by Charles Mingus and Max Roach in a historic session that surprised the jazz world back in the 1960s. The CD includes alternative versions of songs including Rem Blues; A Little Max; and more.
11) Billie
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Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday, and her would-be biographer, a white Jewish woman named Linda Lipnack Kuehl.
12) Shadows
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The story of an interracial romance and the obstacles it puts on family relationships. When appearing on Jean Shepherd's radio program Night People, Cassevetes mentioned the improvisation work he had done with his acting class, and asked for funding to film it. When listeners actually sent in money, he worked up a script based on the classwork, and with additional funding filmed his story of three siblings, two of whom can pass as white.
"John Cassavetes's...