So After Me Club L.A. Club Daze, figured needed sumoze Musaq Edumikashun, applied to Berklee sckool's uv Musaq, and didn't make it, probs because of knowses Hi skull diploomu. nevu droppted out just tuk fur uver. wus ubot 5 cruduts uf. thut eye gut tum ul reedee, wus rung, shull said doos kreeduts doo nut kount. 2 bizzy pleyin gigs en hi scull, + they touht eye wus en idiot and a looser enyways, so just woodant werk owt eny weys. got my diploma any ways, american public H.S. schools are kinda a joke to me but go ahead tell me to fuck off, (except for private Catholic Schools), but back to Berklee, I was studiyng with this one kiss ass bass teach, he told me that the Bass program At Berklee also included uprite, and that this one Mingus CD was the Shit, I too stupid and Lazy American Style to spell it so special thanks to the smarter than I people At MOG who can spell it. They were good Students LOL :)From Wikipedia:Mingus (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979), also known as Charlie Mingus, was an American jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racial injustice.Mingus' legacy is notable; he is ranked among the finest composers and performers in jazz, and recorded many highly regarded albums. Dozens of musicians passed through his bands and later went on to impressive careers. His songs—though melodic and distinctive—are not often recorded by later musicians, due in part to their unconventional nature. Mingus was also influential and creative as a bandleader, recruiting talented and sometimes little-known artists whom he assembled into unconventional and revealing configurations.Nearly as well known as his ambitious music was Mingus' often fearsome temperament, which earned him the nickname "The Angry Man of Jazz." His refusal to compromise his musical integrity led to many onstage explosions, though it has been argued that his temper also grew from a need to vent frustration. Ironically, a perfect show could irritate him by closing this outlet.Mingus was prone to depression. He tended to have brief periods of extreme creative activity, intermixed with fairly long periods of greatly decreased output.Most of Mingus's music retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third Stream Jazz and free jazz. Yet Mingus avoided categorization, forging his own brand of music that fused tradition with unique and unexplored realms of jazz. Mingus focused on collective improvisation, similar to the old New Orleans Jazz parades, paying particular attention to how each band member interacted with the group as a whole. In creating his bands, Mingus looked not only at the skills of the available musicians, but also their personalities. He strived to create unique music to be played by unique musicians.Due to his brilliant writing for mid-size ensembles—and his catering to and emphasizing the strengths of the musicians in his groups—Mingus is often considered the heir apparent to Duke Ellington, for whom he expressed unqualified admiration.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mingus#Pithecanthropus_Erectus
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