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BOX 33-34, 39-40, 69-71 Clippings, 1950-1996 and undated
Album advertisements, Mingus’s and Debut Records artists’ concert and album reviews, and periodicals comprise the Clippings series. Most of the clippings concern concerts, including those Mingus gave in Europe and Asia, or biographical exposés. Mingus kept periodicals and articles about major historical events or articles on topics of personal interest, which are included in this series. Some clippings have been photocopied due to physical deterioration. The series is divided into two file groups: Articles, which are single articles cut or photocopied from newspapers or magazines, and Periodicals, which contain entire magazines. Several articles are posthumous tributes to Mingus published after his death in 1979.
Arranged alphabetically and chronologically therein.
Articles
BOX-FOLDER 70/4 "36th Annual Readers Poll." DownBeat, 1971 December
BOX-FOLDER 71/9 "44th Annual Readers Poll." DownBeat, 1979 December
BOX-FOLDER 70/2 Balliett, Whitney. "A Reporter at Large: Mingus at Peace." The New Yorker, 1971 May 29
BOX-FOLDER 71/2 Brower, Bill. "Salt Peanuts at 1600." Musician Player & Listener, no. 14, 1978 October
BOX-FOLDER 33/45 "Charles Mingus." Jazz Wereld, no. 30, 1970 July
BOX-FOLDER 34/3 "Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert." Changes, 1973 June
BOX-FOLDER 34/6 "Charles Mingus Answers John S. Wilson of the New York Times." Changes, 1972 March
BOX-FOLDER 71/8 Coelho, Joao Marcos. "Chazz Minkus." Abre Alas, 1979 November 1
BOX-FOLDER 69/3 "Debut Records." Musikrevue, 1957 April
BOX-FOLDER 69/5 Ditlevsen, Knud. "Mingus Fra Brande: De Nye Plader Pa Debut." Musikrevue, 1957 October
BOX-FOLDER 69/10 Feather, Leonard. "Charles Mingus." DownBeat, 1960 April 28
BOX-FOLDER 69/11 Feather, Leonard. "Charles Mingus-#2." DownBeat, 1960 May 12
BOX-FOLDER 69/15 Feather, Leonard. "Charles Mingus sur la Sellette." Jazz Magazine, no. 61, 1960 July-August
BOX-FOLDER 70/3 "Hail and Farewell." New York, 1971 September 13
BOX-FOLDER 69/20 Heckman, Donald. "About Charlie Mingus." The American Record Guide, 1962 August
BOX-FOLDER 70/21 "Jazz at the White House." BMI: The Many Worlds of Music, issue 3, 1978
BOX-FOLDER 71/1 Jeske, Lee. "The White House All Stars." Jazz Journal International, volume 31, no. 9, 1978 September
BOX-FOLDER 70/22 Johnson, Sy. "Gallery." Jazz Magazine, volume 2, no. 3, 1978 Spring
BOX-FOLDER 70/6 Klee, Joe H. "Charles Mingus: Better Git It In Your Soul." Jazz Interactions, 1972 January/February
BOX-FOLDER 40/17 McCormack, Ed. "My Man Mingus." Changes, 1975 June 15
BOX-FOLDER 70/1 "Mingus, Charles." Current Biography, volume 32, no. 2, 1971 February
Miscellaneous authors
BOX-FOLDER 69/1 1950s
BOX-FOLDER 34/4 1956-1975
BOX-FOLDER 69/9 1960-1961
BOX-FOLDER 69/18 1962-1963
BOX-FOLDER 69/24 1964
BOX-FOLDER 34/9, 69/26 1965-1969
BOX-FOLDER 69/29 1970-1971
BOX-FOLDER 39/8, 70/5 1972
BOX-FOLDER 70/7 1973
BOX-FOLDER 70/10 1974
BOX-FOLDER 39/8 mid-1970s
BOX-FOLDER 70/12 1975 January-June
BOX-FOLDER 70/13 1975 July-December
BOX-FOLDER 70/14 1976
BOX-FOLDER 34/7 1976-1980 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 70/16 1977 January-March
BOX-FOLDER 39/9, 70/17 1977 April-June
BOX-FOLDER 70/18 1977 July-September
BOX-FOLDER 70/19 1977 October-December
BOX-FOLDER 39/8, 70/20 1978
BOX-FOLDER 71/4 1979
BOX-FOLDER 71/11 1980-1981, 1996
BOX-FOLDER 71/12 Undated
BOX-FOLDER 71/10 Mingus Dynasty, 1979-1980
BOX-FOLDER 71/6 Polillio, Arrigo. "Ed Ora Anche Mingus..." Jazz Musica, 1979 February
BOX-FOLDER 71/5 Posthumous tributes, 1979
BOX-FOLDER 71/3 Primack, Bret. "The Gospel According to Mingus. Disciples Carry the Tune." DownBeat, 1978 December 7
BOX-FOLDER 70/9 Salvatore, Dario. "Charlie Mingus Story: L'Erotomane del Jazz." Ciao 2000, 1973 June 17
BOX-FOLDER 40/18 Sidran, Ben. "Charles Mingus Finds a New Voice: The Underdog Meets Joni Mitchell." Rolling Stone, 1979 January 11
BOX-FOLDER 70/11 Tesser, Neil. "Charles Mingus: Moves." Downbeat, 1974 August 15
BOX-FOLDER 69/19 Testoni, Giancarlo. "Breve Viaggo a New York." Musica Jazz, 1962 July-August
BOX-FOLDER 69/2 de Wilde, H. "Beknopte Discografie van Charlie Mingus." Rhythme, no. 71, 1955 August 15
BOX-FOLDER 71/7 Zabor, Rafi. "Charles Mingus: April 22, 1922-January 5, 1979." Musician Player & Listener, no. 17, 1979 April
Periodicals
BOX-FOLDER 70/15 Black Sports, 1976 January
BOX-FOLDER 70/8 Changes, no. 80, 1973 March
BOX-FOLDER 40/16 Daily News, 1968 April 8
BOX-FOLDER 69/6 DownBeat, 1957 November 14
BOX-FOLDER 69/7 DownBeat, 1957 November 28
BOX-FOLDER 69/14 DownBeat, 1960 June 23
BOX-FOLDER 69/16 DownBeat, 1960 September 1
BOX-FOLDER 69/22 DownBeat, 1963 March 28
BOX-FOLDER 69/25 DownBeat, 1964 August 27
BOX-FOLDER 69/27 DownBeat, 1966 June 2
BOX-FOLDER 40/15 International Musician, 1966 March
BOX-FOLDER 69/23 Jazz, 1963 July-August
BOX-FOLDER 69/4 Jazz Monthly, 1957 September
BOX-FOLDER 69/4 Jazz Monthly, 1957 December
BOX-FOLDER 69/8 Jazz Monthly, volume 4, no. 5, 1958 July
BOX-FOLDER 69/12 The Jazz Review, 1960 June
BOX-FOLDER 69/21 Jet, 1962 September 6
BOX-FOLDER 69/13 Metronome, 1960 June
BOX-FOLDER 69/17 Metronome, 1961 August
BOX-FOLDER 40/14 Muhammad Speaks, 1963 August 2
BOX-FOLDER 69/28 Three Mothers: Their Life Stories, 1968
BOX 34, 38-39, 50, 71-72 MAPCASE 6 Publicity and Programs, 1940-1979 and undated
This series is divided into two file groups. Publicity is made up of Charles Mingus’s and Debut Records musicians’ biographies and album advertisements as well as posters from Mingus’s performances at jazz festivals in the United States and around the world. The Programs are from Mingus’s performances or performances of his music by others, primarily from the 1970s.
Publicity
Arranged alphabetically by artist or festival name and chronologically therein.
BOX-FOLDER 38/20 Ailey, Alvin, 1972 October-November
Three broadsides for "Mingus Dances," Joffrey Ballet, New York City, City Center
BOX-FOLDER 71/13 Curson, Ted, undated
BOX-FOLDER 71/14 Dolphy, Eric, 1973
BOX-FOLDER 71/15 Knepper, Jimmy, circa 1977-1978
Mingus, Charles, circa 1960-1978
BOX-FOLDER 71/16 1960s
BOX-FOLDER 71/17 1971-1972
BOX-FOLDER 71/18 1973-1974
MAPCASE-DRAWER 6/11 1975 March 20
Teatro Turreno Unmbria Jazz poster
BOX-FOLDER 71/19 1976
BOX-FOLDER 50/8 1976 May
Poster for tenth Berkeley Jazz Festival at the University of California, Berkeley
BOX-FOLDER 71/20 1977
BOX-FOLDER 71/21 1978
BOX-FOLDER 39/7 Undated
Newspaper advertisement mock-up with edits for unidentified Mingus album
BOX-FOLDER 34/10, 71/22 Undated
BOX-FOLDER 50/7 Mingus, Charles III. Exhibit at New York Six Gallery, 1965 December 11
Poster for one-man show
BOX-FOLDER 71/23 Newport Jazz Festival, 1962-1976
MAPCASE-DRAWER 6/11 Newport Jazz Festival, 1970
Poster
BOX-FOLDER 71/24 Pullen, Don, undated
BOX-FOLDER 72/1 Shaw, Artie, 1940s
BOX-FOLDER 72/2 Tap Happening, 1966-1969
BOX-FOLDER 72/3 Miscellaneous, undated
Programs
Arranged chronologically.
BOX-FOLDER 72/4 1957-1964
BOX-FOLDER 72/5 1970-1971
BOX-FOLDER 72/6 1972
BOX-FOLDER 72/7 1974-1975
BOX-FOLDER 72/8 1976
BOX-FOLDER 72/9 1977
BOX-FOLDER 72/10 1978-1979
BOX-FOLDER 72/11 Undated
BOX 39-40 Iconography, circa 1940-2015
Photographs of Charles Mingus, his family, friends, and colleagues comprise the majority of this series. The first subseries of photographs and negatives are of Charles Mingus alone, with other musicians, or with his family. The photographs of other musicians are candid images or headshots of jazz musicians that include Eric Dolphy, Duke Ellington, Maynard Ferguson, and Artie Shaw, among others, as well as negatives and photo-postcards. There is one piece of artwork in this subseries, the painting "Space Soul" by Elliott Cola. Cola’s music is located in the "Music by Others" subseries of the Music Series.
Cover Art contains artwork for several Mingus albums, among them Tijuana Moods, Changes One and Two, and Mingus at Monterey. There is also cover art for albums by Debut Records artists Jimmy Knepper, Thad Jones, and Max Roach.
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