STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
Mingus Big Band, Ronnie Scott's London
Marvellous Mingus tribute
WHO can resist the irrepressible musical brilliance and politically regenerative sound of the 14-piece Mingus Big Band and their tribute to the great bass man?
Crammed with powerful US virtuosi, his genius lives again in their every performance.
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