Newman Center presents: Mingus Big Band

"Celebrate the music of composer/bassist Charles Mingus with the six-time Grammy-nominated Mingus Big Band featuring 14 of today’s finest jazz musicians. One of the most important figures in twentieth-century American music, Charles Mingus was a virtuoso bass player, accomplished pianist, bandleader, and composer. He recorded over a hundred albums and wrote over three hundred scores. One of the greatest musicians of our time, Mingus played with the greatest musicians of our time – Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, and many others. Celebrate the centennial of Mingus’s birth with a performance not soon to forget."