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  • thats how america treated it's finest assets, dump em on the street.

  • how is this movie called ? i would like to see the whole movie.

  • Anybody know the tune he was playing on piano?

  • Man, I absolutely LOVE CM....but some of the comments are ridiculous. Making great music doesn't absolve someone from their mistakes and vices. Nor does it put them on a level above being human. As far as all the difficulties Mingus and others endured....that's what challenged them and pushed them to greatness. If the greats didn't suffer as they did....they'd probably not have made the music that they did. The pain in CM's music is one of the things we all love and identify with. IMHO

  • Whats the name of the song he's singin to his daughter?

  • badass

  • Man, you can actually hear his lonely looking bass crying on the side of the street as he's being carted off...

  • You would think with all the things that this man accomplished with his music that the police could maybe ignore a hypodermic needle. . . Then again, he wasn't appreciated much while he was still with us.

  • The picture at the end is from the cover of Mingus's album "Lock 'Em Up"... clever.

  • "Theres sheets of music all over the floor that people are stepping on" Fucking assholes destroying and disrespecting the creations of a legend like Charles Mingus

  • As I watch this, I'm waiting for a court date- suburban cops stopped & searched me for no reason other than my address is in Detroit; they were disappointed when they didn't find anything, told me they "just trying to help", etc. All my basses are in the pawnshop, I'm broke from all the cop bullshit, can't get work because cops posted lies on the web (MDOC-OTIS)... The fact that many of my musical heroes (like Mingus) had to live through the same shit is cold fucking comfort...

  • Hello 14heroes yes there is a DVD of this out there. No subtitles and it was put out by freektasic I bought it in Cleveland. Um it is just titled Mingus I think I don't have it front of me right now. I will write you back if I have more info. :)

  • Miles Davis track, " So What!" if he had a needle. They beat the black man down, he can be angry be a criminal, take it in the a**, or escape with drugs. Plus, those white cops are too happy kicking him out. They can't stand a talented black man. Beat his talent down. Put him in his place.He was right. teach the country something. America is in Shame

  • "YOU CAN'T BEAT ALL THOSE BADGES, CAN YOU?!"

    Words of WISDOM, all the more relevant in 2010...

  • @vectortemple II may have heard it wrong, but I've always thought Mingus was responding to the reporter's question; Who do you feel is treating you unfairly? with the answer: It can't be all these badges can it? In any event, this is one of the most heartbreaking pieces of film I've ever seen. I don't know who that hateful, evil little man was who appears in the next shot, but I get the impression he's the cause of all this. I'm sure he felt no shame, which is why he earns it all the more.

  • LOL @ 8:21 - 8:30

  • i hope the communist blow you up

  • police in new york has hard and dangerous work...

  • i think i'm being helped! LOL that's what this one said, LOL white policeman always a shame!

    the best bassist of all times!

  • Hey!!! Lifestraight I purchased it in a record store in Cleveland Ohio years ago.. the name on the DVD is Freektastic.. maybe that will help.. good luck!!!!

  • "I think I'm being helped. Thats what this one said!" LOLOL I got to read up on this man.

  • Who is he talking about when he says "I'll take his daughter and sell her back to him, I'll take his broad and sell her back to him."???

  • "Do you deny taking the Heroin...?" Real slick, and this reporter was supposed to be on Mingus' side, huh???

  • I dont think he ment it in the way that it sounds. It was in those days a fairly safe assumption that a jazz musician found with a needle was on heroin. I think he was just after mingus' side of the story as apposed to accusing him of anytin.

  • "I hope that the communists blow you people up, man. Ya dig? That's what I am. A red child."

  • Im pretty sure he said "Red China"

  • Charles lived here for the sole purpouse pf making us think. He would twist notes and make us smile, skip minor major trends to stimulate our flow. H would say things about this country that were true to him as the country did fail his expectations often. I have the same issue when I was attending college, my mistake was being alive at a time where some wanted me dead. Charles lives in the hearts of many..R.I.P. mr. gus

  • Thanx for the post. I always love to know the personality behind the music.

  • I own this DVD... It is a beautiful and sad piece of footage!!! Thank you for posting it... Oh and what with all the anger and hate... Its Mingus and his life and his music... not about you... Let it go!!!

  • Where can I get the DVD???

  • @Honeypietwinny There is a DVD of this? Whats the title? Can you please tell me the name of the DVD? and does it have subtitles? Thanks for your time!!!!!!!!

  • What is the name of that song at the end?!

  • zaxmania,

    Thank you for this piece of history. I wrote a comment and don't see it so I am assuming you decide what goes up.

    This is the most powerful video I have seen on youtube and I salute your jazz integrity.

    Grange Lady Haig Rutan - Author

    Death of a Bebop Wife

    Biography of Al Haig the chosen pianist of Charlie Parker and DIzzy Gillespie and later Stan Getz

    I shall not forget this moment.

  • My breath has been taken away and I am subdued beyond my wildest imagination as tears are holding and refuse to fall, all because of you zaxmania and what you have presented.

    All these mean yesterdays that a jazz musician had to endure came back in what happened to CHARLES MINGUS, not CHARLIE...what a disgrace. I saw Bird and Chan down below Avenue A and Al Haig's burned sofa sitting at the curb and Miles Davis's mattress at the Black Hawk with no sheets and I thought, 'All that beauty-but why?

  • I might have never found jazz if it wasn't for Ming. When Mingus died God should have stepped down and let Charlie run our Mother Earth, that devil woman.

  • i hope the communists blow us up too. god bless you charles mingus

  • Mingus is the best double bassist ever. His playing is unbelievable, but his composing is better. The will never be bassist like mingus, ron carter, etc because they performed in a time completely different than now. They were black in an america that made you have to succeed or you would be moping floors or be a porter. Ive always loved mingus and how he stood as a black man.

  • can someone tell me why his was evicted from his apartment and arrested??

  • I think he was teaching kids how to play at that place, didn't make much money and fell back on his rent.

  • The most amazing musician ever to walk this planet. Hats off.

  • that was a great man!

    his music still IS!!

  • Police 717 Police

  • one of americas greatest artists ..

  • He looked as though he wanted to cry. I felt the same way when I saw this.

  • i dig music.

  • the part when he cries just kills me!

  • to be black oh to be black. what a privilege it is and how were hated for no reason other than our superiority and undying love for creativity.

  • What was the conflict at 8:25?

  • In response to puniabe- America is a melting pot. Saying that a "real" American is Irish and Hispanic is insane. America's population comes from a diverse array of nationalities and none should be hated in response to personal ignorance in this video.

  • WOW

  • Blacks, please dont hate on all white people from the abuse that you have witnessed in this video. If you really look hard at it, the only hate that should be thrown around from this video is against the American white people, you know, real Americans (Hispanic mixed with Ireland) Americans, those people that you see working for the police department, but dont.. abuse us Russians we didnt do shit to you blacks EVER

  • what.....come on you telling me that WASPS (Anglo Saxon!!!!) you know slavery the Foundation Of the KKK and the PROLONGED Oppresion of the American People.....EVERY american(small a on purpose) President up to KENNEDY was A WASP and then the first Irish Bloke Elected Pres. Of America Did More than any before

    And RUSSIA??? My Brother lives in St Petersburg and has seen many A Mongolian Immigrant been beaten almost to death by VERY ACTIVE Skin-Head Gangs witch DO NOT excist In IRELAND.

  • Hey... everybody just coooooool out.

  • all whites are the same. You deal with one you deal with em all

  • US RUSSIANS HAVE NEVER KEPT BLACKS SLAVES yet you niggers continue to abuse our children in schools

  • your ignorant comment shows how retarded you really are.

  • I'm sorry, are you white? Have you gone trough the abuse personally then had kids come to you and report abuse of blacks? No so shut the fuck up.

  • I'm sorry your children are being abused in school. Why do you generalize the treatment of your children to African Americans? Is it possible that any poor and opressed people behave in predictable ways? Certainly the hsitory of Russia suggests this. No?

  • What are you trying to say that us Russians are poor and this, being poor, provokes hatred from African Americans? And to answer your first question, my kids come home with stories of abuse from black kids, never white kids. Now I know for a fact that white kids never do this to black kids in schools as black kids are physically stronger and will never allow it so why the fuck do you do it? This is not the 1900s anymore get over it niggers..

  • Especially us Russians, that's my whole point.. if you want to abuse white people thats great, I hate Americans as much as I hate Niggers so abuse them but leave Russians alone we never did shit to you niggers you are just asking for another revolution.

  • You call African Americans 'niggers' and you wonder why they act with violence toward your kids. Hmmm maybe your kids have become infected with your hatred and take it to school with them. They call African Americans "niggers" as you taught them (BIG MISTAKE) and African American kids respond with violence. I wonder what would happen if your kids were not infected with your hatred, anger and hostility?

  • And what can't you understand about the situation? The school my kids go to is 98% black which is another reason why they are hating on the white kids. I think if my kids got brave and actually talked back to one of you niggers they wouldn't live to see the end of it with fucking 28 huge gorillas in a class and 2 white kids use your stupid nigger brain

  • your an idiot. i hope one of those black kids stomps on your kids infected russian testicles

  • By the way...why on earth do you choose to come here of all places spew your illogical hatred?

  • Believe me, if my children were more brave and actually did have the courage to call you niggers they would not be picked on so much in school. It's the fact that you niggers love to pick on weaker white kids to get your anger off which is why my children are victims.

  • I came on this video not to spread hatred or anger but just to inform you stupid monkeys that us R U S S I A N S never did S H I T to you N I G G E R S so leave our children alone, thats all if you don't realize in your stupid heads that this statement is true and you are abusing us for no reason then you god damn well deserve to be slaves and killed

  • So you hate blacks and white americans: Suggestion...GO BACK TO FUCKING RUSSIA AND TAKE YOUR FUCKING KIDS WITH YOU!!!!!

  • That comment right there just proves that you agree and know all well how you blacks treat us, you don't own America and once Barack slips up you will be the one going back to Africa not us.

  • I was actually trying to understand where you were coming from. All Americans own America...that's the beauty of the place. Don't count on President Obama slipping up. Even if he did, Black people have survived under Regan and Bush and and Alexander Hamilton and we are still here. We will be here forever. Deal with it. And stop infecting your children with hate and they will stop getting their asses kicked. guaranteed!

  • We all know Obama can't afford to slip up, if he does it will be thousands of years before another black president is elected.

  • I really don't care whether a president is black or white. Apparently neither does America. I care about a president being smart, honest and that he (or she) possesses moral fibre to serve as an example to the world. You really need to move on from your hatred. Ask yourself...what it it getting for you?

  • It's good to be hated in envy but being hated in stupidity is not good..

  • Are you speaking from experience? If so, have you had more experience being hated in envy or in stupidity? Just asking.

  • So you think: 1) Black Youtube audience for a Charles Mingus clip controls the behavior of the children that are beating up your kids; 2) To the extent that we could help you, we would be inclined to do so after you call us names these names? You should probably rethink your strategy, no?

  • At 4:15 I see the devil in that man.

  • Can't understand a word he's saying. Even if he isn't drunk or drugged he sounds it. The music, is of course, sublime. He could be really nasty I heard.

  • I am sorry that I said that wrong. I agree with what Charles was doing, fighting against

    predjudice, fighting for equality and such. He was a genius but he had a pretty bad temper, and I don't think that, that helped him. but..his music lives on. RIP Charlie Mingus.

  • bad temper probably from the heroine and pills, not saying its wrong, let people live their life how they want to, they want to do drugs, go ahead. personally i dont give a fuck

  • an honest man trying to do good being persecuted for no reason

  • La nena es su hija??? me encanta Mingus pero me jode n monton que niños pequeños tengan que sufrir por los problemas de los mayores, se me rompe el corazon cuando veo a la nena que no sabe lo que va a pasar...mierda de vida

  • An attitude problem doesn't warrant this kind of treatment!!

  • You have NO IDEA what Mingus life was like.

    Attitude problem? I missed it Bobo were you in this clip ? Walking with him? You wouldn't have lasted a day in his life 'in his shoes' BoBo. Your comment is proof that you can't accept a real man.

  • Disregard my previous post: I got the name. So this is Triumph of the Underdog. Wow: Powerful Stuff. And a hell of a way to end a film with Mingus getting evicted and arrested!

    I am so picking this up!

  • What is the name of this documentary? I have to buy this!!!

  • just another great thinker cut down by this government

  • Mingus was a prophet and was illegally evicted.

    Just look at those white criminals confiscating his art...America will finally have a justified president...Obama

  • White criminals?? How racist.

  • You shut the fuck up. You fucking trash.

  • Why? so much hate man

  • Maybe a country should be judged by how it treats its artists? I don't know, but this is really sad. I remember seeing this movie years ago and I'm still not clear as to why he was being evicted.

  • Gee, maybe he didn't pay the rent.

  • Ha, yeah, but I heard there was more to the story.

  • Firing an elephant gun in his living room sure didn't help.

  • Wikipedia states that he was "evicted from his apartment at 5 Great Jones Street in New York City because he fired a gun through his wall into a neighbor's apartment".

  • with no citation...

  • "I hope the communists blow you up you dig?"

    The man stays cool in the face of some ice cold treatment... Powerful, but truly sad.

  • best quote

  • well this is depressing

  • .......

  • Wow, this is some powerful stuff. Thanks for this. Interesting and educational, heartbreaking and uplifting. Awesome stuff!

  • Who is that little kid at the begining?

  • That's his daughter.

  • What a sad moment

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