Sinais dos tempos by Gabriel Rezende

“…Dentre eles está “Moda intemporal: sobre o jazz” (1953), publicado num momento em que a trajetória de Charles Mingus dá uma guinada em direção a criação de novas formas de atuação. …”
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Tonal Poetry, Bop Aesthetics, and Jack Kerouac’s Visions of Gerard by James J. Donahue

“…Jack Kerouac composed his novel Visions of Gerard in 1956 (released in 1963), the same year Charles Mingus released his classic album Pithecanthropus Erectus. …”
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“I’m gonna lose my strength, I’m gonna seize and die, And all that Jazz”! Neurological diseases in jazz legends by Francisco Manoel Branco Germiniani, Carlos Henrique Ferreira Camargo, Léo Coutinho, Hélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive

“…The neurological diseases that afflicted the following six composers and musicians, all of whom are considered jazz legends, are briefly discussed: Charles Mingus, diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Lester Young and Charlie Parker, both diagnosed with neurosyphilis; Thelonius Monk, who had possible frontotemporal dementia; George Gershwin, who died as a result of brain glioma; and Cole Porter, who developed phantom limb pain following an amputation. …”
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