Early Charles Mingus - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting Jazz Podcast #14

This week's episode of Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting is about the early work of Charles Mingus, from the middle 1940s to 1956 when he signed with Atlantic records, and features his work as a leader and as a sideman in the bands of Miles Davis, Teddy Charles, Red Norvo (about whom a story from Mingus' autobiography Beneath The Underdog is shared) and more!

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I'm a lover of jazz music and have spend the last 20 years digging through record crates at the record stores, yard sales, swap meets, etc, in the Los Angeles area, and want to share some of the great jazz I've discovered along the way. Most episodes are focused on a single jazz artist, some are focused on various jazz styles, to point others in the right direction when it comes to finding out about great jazz