Eric Mingus' Bio and Dicography

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Eric Mingus

Composer/vocalist/poet/bassist

Eric Mingus is an acclaimed composer, performer, recording artist and poet, who has performed with Elliott Sharp, Hubert Sumlin, Carla Bley, Todd Rundgren, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Karen Mantler, Steven Bernstein, Catherine Sikora, Levon Helm and many more, including being a featured performer in many of Hal Willner’s projects. Eric’s compositions range from blues and rock songs to haunting instrumental melodies and jazz inspired arrangements, and this extraordinarily broad range of styles is always clearly defined by his unique aesthetic sensibility. He has written scores for three documentaries, and has composed almost all of the music for his albums and contributed songs to many more projects. Eric is currently writing music for his next solo album, and for the next Clockwork Mercury album.

Film/television scores:

Shadow Boxing: the Journey of the African American Fighter (ESPN Classic)

Fighting The Mob: The Carmen Basilio Story (ESPN Classic)

Sweet Science, a boxing documentary. (Independent)

Albums:

As leader:

Um…Er..Uh (Some Records)

Too Many Bullets…Not Enough Soul (Some Records)

Healin’ Howl (Intuition)

As co-leader:

This Isn’t Sex

Clockwork Mercury (Independent)

There are many more recordings and accomplishments we are just compiling the info and will post more soon.