Charles Mingus Ensemble at UCLA
Charles Mingus Ensemble.James Newton, master flute player and current Professor of Music at UCLA, toured with the Mingus Dynasty Band back in the 1990's and has been a Mingus fan ever since. He is also the Director of the Department of Ethnomusicology at UCLA and has just written that a Charles Mingus Ensemble is being formed to carry on Mingus music and the Mingus workshop approach to tackling music! Coincidentally, the 7-piece Mingus Dynasty will perform at UCLA's Royce Hall on Friday, March 16, 2012, including musicians Alex Foster, Donald Edwards, Avishai Cohen, Boris Kozlov, Ku-umba Frank Lacy and more! To be continued......!