He was the first musician to use overdubbing on a jazz album in his recording of a six-part suite originally intended to be a ballet.
After Oscar Pettiford broke his arm playing baseball, this man stepped into a lineup that included Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Max Roach to play in a stellar live show at Massey Hall. He was the first musician to use overdubbing on a jazz album in his recording of a six-part suite originally intended to be a ballet. That album, Black Saint and Sinner Lady, was one of many to feature Dannie Richmond, a longtime collaborator who first appeared on The Clown.  He eulogized the Attica Prison Riots in Changes One, and composed a piece about school integration in Arkansas, "Fables of Faubus." That track appeared on an album along with "Self-Portrait in Three Colors" and "Better Git in Your Soul," though the best known track off that album may be "Good-bye Pork Pie Hat." The influence of his hero Duke Ellington can be seen in tracks like "My Jelly Roll Soul" which appeared on his album Blues and Roots, while his masterwork may be Epitaph. FTP, name this jazz bassist who died of ALS, best known for Ah Um and Pithecanthropus Erectus.
After Oscar Pettiford broke his arm playing baseball, this man stepped into a lineup that included Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Max Roach to play in a stellar live show at Massey Hall.
Charles Mingus