Mosaic Records Celebrates 90th Birthday Anniversary of Charles Mingus with 6 CD Limited Edition Collection Including Previously Unreleased Material

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Bassist, Charles McPherson, Charles Mingus, Clifford Jordan, Dannie Richmond, Eric Dolphy, Jaki Byard, Johnny Coles, Michael Cuscuna, Mosaic Records

Charles Mingus The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65

Release Date: September 18, 2012

Charles Mingus, THE JAZZ WORKSHOP 1964-1965

Listen to a Streaming Track From The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65

Because this is the 90th birthday anniversary year of Charles Mingus, Sue Mingus called last spring to ask Michael Cuscuna whether he might be interested in issuing some of the unreleased Mingus tapes she had in the archives. It didn’t take long to make such a decision! Charles Mingus was always the most incandescent of jazz’s few true geniuses, and the mid-1960s was undoubtedly one of the most tumultuous periods in his – and America’s – storied history. In Mingus’ case, that personal, social and political upheaval was the recipe for some of his most ferociously creative output, represented here by four intense, combustible concerts by some of his most legendary groups.