Git it in your soul

Charles Mingus, fiery temperament notwithstanding, is one of my favorite jazz musicians.

Take five... and experience it in your soul.

First up, Better Git it in your soul


Another famous hit from the same album (Ah um, an album every jazz music fan should own!)

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Another favorite of mine... Moanin'



Mingus in his New York loft, plays with his daughter, plays some piano and bass


Here he is playing a novel interpretation of Duke Ellington's 'Take the A train', with the great Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet


And last but not least... the first 10 minutes of Epitaph, his two hour long 'magnum opus' premiered by a 30-piece orchestra at the Alice Tully Hall in the Lincoln Center and produced by Mingus's widow, Sue Graham Mingus, at Alice Tully Hall on June 3, 1989, ten years after his death.