# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-mingus
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:38:48.053Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-mingus"
name: "Charles Mingus"
slug: "charles-mingus"
description: "Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author. A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered 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)."
tagline: "American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader (1922–1979)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Mingus_1976.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1922-04-22"
deathDate: "1979-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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totalFollowers: 21400
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump