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Charles Mingus: Two Impressive Souvenirs

by Jim Santella
October 1, 2006

From an original Dixieland arrangement of “Muskrat Ramble to a genuine bebop mosaic and some extended works, the music of Charles Mingus brings us variety--seeped with the emotion Mingus pumped into just about everything that he created. The 1965 riots in Watts, which is that part of Los Angeles where Mingus spent much of his youth, ...