CHARLES MINGUS

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Nat Hentoff & "The Pleasures of Being Out of Step"

On Thursday, October 16th, 2014, at 7:00pm Suffolk University will screen the film The Pleasure of Being Out of Step-- a documentary film about the life of seminal jazz critic and Boston native, Nat Hentoff whose career tracks the greatest cultural and political movements of the last 65 years.  Hentoff is a pioneer who raised jazz as an art form and was present at the creation of ‘alternative’ journalism in this country, and a personal friend of Mingus.  The screening will feature a performance by the Boston Latin School Jazz Combo under the direction of Paul J. Pitts, Director.