Great moments in jazz: Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

It's almost impossible to choose just one great moment from the legacy of this pioneering bassist and compositional genius"My music is evidence of my soul's will to live," Charles Mingus once said, and the evidence of that life-force amounts to some of the most dramatic and powerful jazz composed in the 20th century. A volcanically active genius, the bass player packed an incendiary mix of soulful music, impassioned politics, cross-genre vision and creative but occasionally self-destructive impe...

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