Mingus Big Band – review

Ronnie Scott's, LondonWhen the Mingus Big Band began its Thursday-night residency at New York's Time Cafe in 1991, Charles Mingus had been dead 12 years, and several members were familiar from the great composer/bassist's own groups. Two decades later, skilful replacements have emerged to play Mingus's capriciously complex orchestral jazz, and in the creatively inexact manner he would have wanted. The irascible genius might have yelled for more cliffhanging wildness on this week's opening show a...

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