Composition database

This is the Composition Database of BMC, which includes information about works by composers that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary.

Title of the work

Blues for Charles


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Blues for Charles
Foreign language / English title
Blues for Charles
Subtitle
For narrator and Jazz Big Band
Year of composition
2004

Type
Ensemble
Number of players
18
Instrumentation
narrator - 5 sax. - 4 tr., 3 trb., tuba - chit., pf. - perc. - cb.)
Duration
3 min

Movements, parts
One movement

Text
MINGUS, Charles
Language
English, German
Premiere information
2005, Jazz Club Porgy & Bess, Vienna
Publisher / Source