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February 2002 Sax Trivia Contest

Thanks again to everyone who played this month!

Prizes:

  • Vintage Selmer alto or tenor s ($ 120.00 value)
  • The double LP set, "Charles Mi ($ 20.00 value)
  • 1 box of Alexander Superial Re ($ 12.50 value)

Winner

Wayne Robjohns from Jamesburg, NJ US

Contest background

Charles Mingus approached his music as a means of self-expression and redefinition--a means of overcoming inner antagonisms and the barriers of race. His creative genius was in a large part attributed to his focus and intensity as he was once quoted as saying (speaking about himself and Max Roach), "we both spent twenty-four hours a day thinking about music." Miles Davis once said, "he was always an inventive, hard driving, imaginative musician."

Of his early work, Gunther shuler Schuller noted, ".......striking example of a new compositional voice struggling to be heard". He further noted, "Many of Mingus' later conceptual and ideological traits can be heard in this early effort: the caustic biting humor; the wild dense contrapuntal textures accumulated, so to speak, out of multiple spontaneous lines; the forays into atonality."

These traits are especially true of his 1959 composition entitled Good Bye Pork Pie Hat. This ballad was written for and dedicated to one of the first truly great jazz saxophonist just after his death.

Contest Question

Who did Charles Mingus dedicate the tune Good Bye Pork Pie Hat?

Correct Answer

Lester Young

Where You Could Have Found The Answer

This month's trivia question could be found on a number of web sites dedicated to Charles Mingus. A couple of our favorites are listed below:

AFRICANPUBS

Charles Mingus Home Page

Thank you to everyone who entered this month's Saxquest trivia contest. This month's question was a bit too easy so we'll be sure to challenge you a bit more next month!! Thanks again for playing and GOOD LUCK with this month's contest!!!