{"id":394,"date":"2009-06-02T09:53:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2009-06-02T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T13:53:10","slug":"charlie-mingus-powerful-romantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Mingus &#8211; powerful romantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mingus-by-harvey-pekar-193x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-395\" title=\"mingus-by-harvey-pekar-193x300\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mingus-by-harvey-pekar-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"mingus-by-harvey-pekar-193x300\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got plenty of writing to do this morning, writing, proofreading, citating, etc.\u00a0 Nothing like a deadline to make sure the work gets done.\u00a0 But just as important is the music.\u00a0 Mingus is an artist with whom I need to become more conversant.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve heard a little bit here, a little bit there, and it&#8217;s all good.\u00a0 The other magnetising factor drawing me in is the huge influence he had on Zappa.\u00a0 I can hear it plainy (plus I&#8217;ve read about it), but there also that touchy issue of band politics that has fascinated me since I was first in a band in college.\u00a0 Mingus ran some tight bands.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what&#8217;s on the speakers today, mostly from the 60&#8217;s output.\u00a0 I hear his bands jam with ferocity and then switch back to a romantic swagger.\u00a0 Picture a late night in New York City circa 1962.\u00a0 The big black Cadillacs reflect all the glittering lights of the city as they make their way through the Village.\u00a0 Beatniks mix with couples who are dressed in formal evening attire.\u00a0 Martinis flow like water and, unlike today, you have to go <em>outside<\/em> to get away from the cigarette smoke.<\/p>\n<p>On stage, the band sweats through another arrangment and everyone is in a trance as the big man behind the bass conducts the proceedings into the early morning hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got plenty of writing to do this morning, writing, proofreading, citating, etc.\u00a0 Nothing like a deadline to make sure the work gets done.\u00a0 But just as important is the music.\u00a0 Mingus is an artist with whom I need to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=394\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,23],"tags":[380,378,341,1478,379,34,1492],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}