“There is nothing tentative here, nothing in excess, no showboating. It’s all classic Mingus – bold, clear, marvelously resilient lines; continually intriguing shifts of time and texture; and that ability of the leader to draw on the expressive potential of each sideman so that they discover they have ways of saying things they had not quite known were in them.” – Nat Hentoff, from his liner notes to Atlantic LP Changes One by Charles Mingus (Atlantic SD–1677, 1975).