:00:08. > :00:13.Charlie Mingus's music is a great combination between bombastic and
:00:14. > :00:18.beta. Blue whatever it plays, it has a feeling of tension, like it's
:00:19. > :00:24.about to explode. It's always blues. If you don't know what that means
:00:25. > :00:25.then check out Charlie Mingus. He's one of the baddest musicians to ever
:00:26. > :01:07.lived. He's the King Mingus. Charles Mingus's work as a bass
:01:08. > :01:12.player and as a composer, in many ways the two things merged into one.
:01:13. > :01:19.They are both attached to his soul directly. Charles Mingus is where
:01:20. > :01:29.chaos and beauty meet, and that place is a wonderful place, and a
:01:30. > :01:33.tragic place. Over three decades he recorded 100 albums and worked with
:01:34. > :01:39.everybody from Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis. Duke
:01:40. > :01:44.Ellington was one of his biggest inspirations. For me that's huge. I
:01:45. > :01:51.like Mingus because of that, that's all I need to hear! He was a
:01:52. > :01:59.virtuosic bass player, he had unbelievable feel. This was a guy in
:02:00. > :02:04.Charlie Parker's band. He played on the cutting edge. Every corner of
:02:05. > :02:10.this music that you could exist in, Charles Mingus existed in. I think
:02:11. > :02:14.what stands Mingus apart from a lot of his contemporaries is summed up
:02:15. > :02:19.by blues and roots. I think it's the rates element for me which is what
:02:20. > :02:25.resonates the most. It's this freight train of an approach to
:02:26. > :02:34.mesmeric baselines, that you just don't forget. All his music, there a
:02:35. > :02:39.melodic line through it that allows even a casual listener to just be
:02:40. > :02:44.able to become immersed in the soul of it. He has integrity with
:02:45. > :02:48.whatever he does, so if he's making music to get you shaking, you know
:02:49. > :03:00.that this is a guy who knows how to shake. I think the Proms audience
:03:01. > :03:06.can expect a very interesting adaptation of Mingus's music. It's
:03:07. > :03:16.going to be nice and spicy. So I'm the bottom of hot sauce! -- bottle.
:03:17. > :03:20.We want to have some friction, some battles, some war, and we want to
:03:21. > :03:25.show people the depth of a composer who is seminal and stands amongst
:03:26. > :03:31.all of the true greats of jazz music.
:03:32. > :50:23.APPLAUSE That are
:50:24. > :50:27.# Take away the grief you've caused # Can't sleep at night
:50:28. > :50:36.# With the fear that I'll live it all again
:50:37. > :50:45.# When you say she doesn't want me
:50:46. > :51:10.# That has paid the price of love
:51:11. > :05:07.People who are eccentric and also having some dark sides to their
:05:08. > :05:13.character, they are very attractive for people after their time. Because
:05:14. > :05:21.the moment they live, they suffer from it because they aren't
:05:22. > :05:23.adjusting to society. Later on, they put people in heaven. It's always a
:05:24. > :05:37.little bit late, I think. It would be very difficult for you
:05:38. > :05:51.to find a musician or artist who has music with more struggle in it. But
:05:52. > :05:55.you can see that this is also, there is a conceptual crew lying in his
:05:56. > :06:06.music. His experience is struggle, so why would his music be laden with
:06:07. > :06:11.release? It's not a simple music, it's not a music that says this is a
:06:12. > :06:15.surface level of who I am. It says that levels to me and the music that
:06:16. > :06:23.I play, that you have to come towards me to really comprehend. The
:06:24. > :06:27.way that his legacy lives on through me is that people shouldn't always
:06:28. > :06:32.just copy what other people are doing. It's more important to create
:06:33. > :06:38.your own style based on your influences, because that's what he
:06:39. > :06:43.did. I think you such an inspiration because he was a rebel, he was an
:06:44. > :06:50.extremely complex, charismatic but enigmatic character. For me, to take
:06:51. > :06:59.that into the symphonic context, is what made it appealing. I feel like
:07:00. > :07:03.Charles Mingus's legacy is unquestionable. There are teachings
:07:04. > :07:07.of his methods, the writings of his ways, and the fact is that if you
:07:08. > :07:13.listen to his record now they still stand the test of time.
:07:14. > :23:35.# All alone, sad clown with his circus closed down.
:23:36. > :23:46.# Lost in a merry-go-ound, came a melody in my heart so yearning.
:23:47. > :23:49.# Taught me to hear music out of love,
:23:50. > :24:14.# Infinite, with the lover and beloved,
:24:15. > :32:48.# Waiting To show what he sees
:32:49. > :33:02.--so afraid And the one that keeps
:33:03. > :33:11.# One's so sweet so overly loving and gentle
:33:12. > :33:20.# He lets people into his innermost sacred temple
:33:21. > :33:44.The insulting plan God must be a boogie man!
:33:45. > :35:14.# Which one do you think he'd want the world to see
:35:15. > :35:18.# Well world opinion's not a lot of help
:35:19. > :35:24.# When a man's only trying to find out how to feel about himself
:35:25. > :35:36.The cock-eyed plan God must be a boogie man!