Mingus - A Short Biography

NAW MAN!!! Mr.Mingus with all due respect sir...They took you because you are of YISREAL heritage from the tribe of JUDAH and that is a part of the Deuteronmy 28 curse on Black people so-called NIGGERS...its happening to all of us!!!

This is why I love youtube...
You get amusement from COMPLETE nutters like you,
keep it up mate!

Great composer, performer, man.

does anyone know in what song he recites that poem at the end? or it was never in one of his songs?

I don't know what it was titled, but that's a pretty famous poem. I remember it hung on my 8th grade English teacher's wall, ha.

its by niemoeller

The song is called "The Chill of Death."

there's a lot of different versions. it was originally recited, i think, at the nuremburg trials. or at least around that era

the song is "freedom" and the album is mingus mingus mingus mingus mingus

It's a quote from a prominent german protestant pastor that is varied.
It goes "They came for the comminusts but I didn't protest, for I am not a communist.
They came for the socialists but I didn't protest, for I am not a socialist.
They came for the trades unionists but I didn't protest, for I am not a trades unionist.
They came for the jews but i didn't protest, for I am not a jew.
They came for me, and there was no one left to protest."