Video Review

Charles Mingus Sextet (1993)

EW's GRADE
A

Details Genre: Documentary; With: Charles Mingus

Mingus' music, as straightforwardly captured in this 1964 concert, remains as fresh and challenging as almost anything in jazz today. This is the only known footage of composer-bassist Mingus with innovative sax man Eric Dolphy (savor ''So Long, Eric'') -- who, two months later, would be dead of a heart attack at 36.

Originally posted Jun 25, 1993 Published in issue #176-177 Jun 25, 1993 Order article reprints

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