Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author. A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered to be one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history, with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz greats such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Max Roach, and Eric Dolphy. Mingus's work ranged from advanced bebop and avant-garde jazz with small and midsize ensembles, to pioneering the post-bop style on seminal recordings like Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) and Mingus Ah Um (1959), and progressive big band experiments such as The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963).

22 April 1922

Born on the same birth date (22 April 1922): Richard Diebenkorn • Wolf V. Vishniac

Born on the same birth day (22 April): Aaron Spelling • Bernhard Gregory • Dee Strange-Gordon • Eric Fenby • Ethel Smyth • Georg Lurich • Hanfried Lenz • Harold Jeffreys • Jeff Hostetler • Mickey Vernon • Richard Diebenkorn • Vittorio Jano

Born in the same month (April 1922): Allan Watkins • Andy Linden (racing driver) • Audrey Long • Carl Amery • Doris Day • Gordon Chater • Hasrat Jaipuri • Heinz Baas • James Holt (historian) • Jeanne Sauvé • John Braine • Leo Tindemans • Marc-Adélard Tremblay • Margaret Scott (dancer) • Michael Ansara • Parren Mitchell • Richard Diebenkorn • Simon Kapwepwe • Toots Thielemans • William Manchester • Yevhen Bulanchyk