Which double bassist, composer and jazz bandleader created works like Mingus Ah Um?

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Charles Mingus was a powerful double bassist, an original composer and a demanding bandleader. His works combine blues, gospel, swing, bebop, collective improvisation and orchestral passages. Albums such as “Mingus Ah Um” and “The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady” demonstrate his ambitious writing and political engagement. Mingus could play expressive solos, but the claim that he single-handedly revolutionized double-bass playing through melodic soloing fits innovations more closely associated with musicians such as Scott LaFaro. Mingus’s distinctiveness lies in the combination of his playing, compositions, arrangements and forceful direction of ensembles.