Born in Nogales, Arizona in 1922, Mingus grew up in the Watts section of Los Angeles, where he picked up a wide range of musical influences, from gospel to jazz to R&B. By the mid-1940s, Mingus had toured and performed with Kid Ory, Louis Armstrong, and Lionel Hampton and by the mid-1950s, was changing the way the world listened to jazz. Over the years, Mingus's music transcended categorization and established the artist as a major American composer. "For sheer melodic and rhythmic and structural originality," wrote The New Yorker, "his compositions may equal anything written in western music in the twentieth century." After his death at age 56, of Lou Gehrig's disease, Charles Mingus's ashes were scattered in the Ganges River. This undated portrait of Mingus captures the intensity and complexity of his genius with the clarity of a mug shot or a passport photo.

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LIMITED EDITIONS are printed from the original negative and are available only in the 16" x 20" size. LIMITED EDITIONS are signed by the photographer and numbered, each edition is limited to 200 photographs.