about: Mingus, the chaos and the magic
Mingus: The Chaos and the Magic
Christopher Carroll
[▻http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/feb/12/mingus-chaos-magic/]
Charles Mingus’s audiences never knew quite what they were going to get, and this kept them coming. Mingus, the bassist, composer, and bandleader who reached the height of his fame in the mid-1960s, was notoriously mercurial. He was known to fire and rehire band members over the course of a set, and was once fired himself for chasing a trombonist across the stage with an axe.