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Track: Hobo Ho
Artist: Charles Mingus
Album: Let My Children Hear Music

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Name: Charles Mingus
Spotify Genres: jazz, hard bop, bebop, free jazz, cool jazz
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American jazz double bass player and pianist, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist. Born April 22, 1922 in Nogales, Arizona, USA. Died January 5, 1979 in Cuernavaca, Mexico (aged 56). Mingus was a pioneer in double bass technique, he also pioneered in overdubbing and cutting-up/reassembling tapes of different takes in the studio to achieve the best version to put on record. He also authored an autobiographical novel called "Beneath The Underdog". He died from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease).

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Release: Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
Year: 1972
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Big Band, Post Bop, Avant-garde Jazz