![]() Zenker and the musicians will also present free workshops to students at Stellenbosch University, UCT, Wits and Pretoria University, as well as local community music schools in Gugulethu and Langa townships. ![]() The groups will be performing at various venues in Cape Town, Joburg and Pretoria. “This work is a personal and simultaneously strong testimony of this extraordinary musician and also the testimony of the emancipation of jazz.” The music pioneer died on January 5, 1979, aged 56.Īptly named the Charles Mingus Ensemble, the group consists of students and graduates from the Munich Academy of Music and Performing Arts led by internationally renowned double bassist and jazz lecturer, Professor Martin Zenker.Ĭommenting on the show, Zenker said: “Mingus is, amongst few others, one of the most important trailblazers of avant-garde jazz and a link between tradition and modernism in jazz. He worked with fellow jazz icons, the likes of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Herbie Hancock. ![]() ![]() With a career spanning over three decades, Mingul was considered one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history. Young jazz musicians from Germany, Mongolia, Austria and America are set to showcase their talents in South Africa this October, in honour of legendary composer, bassist and pianist Charles Mingus.
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