On July 20, 1975, Charles Mingus was in Montreux, Switzerland, to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival. He was on tour to promote Changes One and Changes Two, a pair of albums recorded for Atlantic months earlier in December 1974. They are among the bassist's finest albums of the decade and were his first studio recordings in the States in the 1970s up…
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