Few events epitomize the disarray jazz was beginning to experience at the start of the 1960s than Charles Mingus’ Town Hall concert of October 12, 1962. During this period, musicians increasingly were wresting control of their recordings away from producers who for years had imposed rigid structure on sessions. Mingus, for all of his creative vision and…
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