Jazz Workshop/Jazz Composers Workshop question

[ghost of miles]

I'm doing some research for a Night Lights program devoted in part to Charles Mingus' 1954 Savoy session that was released under the title JAZZ COMPOSERS WORKSHOP and am trying to discern what the evolution of the various so-called Jazz Workshops were. Santoro's Mingus bio is of little help (the references are vaguely allusive-I'm going to run down Priestly's book at the library tomorrow), but was the Jazz Composers Workshop a separate entity--a name for a collective that included Mingus, Macero, John LaPorta, and some others who were performing around NYC under that name in the early-to-mid 1950s? As opposed to the Jazz Workshop that I associate with Mingus and Debut. (The Mingus Debut liners don't offer much clarification either.)

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Talk to Noal Cohen. He interviewed Teddy Charles several times about this.

http://www.attictoys.com/jazz/TC_intro.html

Mike

[ghost of miles]

Thanks, Mike--I sent him an e-mail. I imagine the lines were fairly nebulous, but there does seem to be a slight distinction between Mingus' Jazz Workshop and the JCW.