Epitaph (Mingus)

Epitaph is the master work of jazz musician Charles Mingus. It is a composition which is more than 4000 measures long, requires two hours to perform and was only completely discovered during the cataloguing process after his death. With the help of a grant from the Ford Foundation, the score and instrumental parts were copied, and the piece itself was premiered by a 30-piece orchestra, conducted by Gunther Schuller, in a concert produced by Sue Mingus at Alice Tully Hall on June 3, 1989, ten years after Mingus's death.

External links

• John Sobol, "Meeting the Underdog" – in-depth personal memoir of Epitaphs recreation, by John Sobol, a jazz critic who was at the rehearsals and show