The Bellevue Jazz Festival is back! And one of the highlights of this year's festival is the appearance of the Mingus Big Band. Charles Mingus was one of the most creative, wide-ranging and tempestuous of jazz bassists and composers, and although he is now long gone, his band lives on.
Mingus' own groups, often called "Jazz Workshops" could be cacophonously bluesy or the hardest swinging of the avant-garde and his influence and impact only gets larger every year.
The Mingus Big Band is one of those rare 'ghost bands' which seems to have absorbed all the crucial lessons from its late leader and should rock the house on Saturday, May 23.
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