“The most distant supernova in the sky was named ‘Mingus’ in 2013. Intimates of Charles Mingus…probably agreed that an exploding star fitted this unpredictable and passionate musical vision­ary’s character pretty well. Since his death in 1979, Mingus alumni and younger recruits have continued to play his vast jazz and contemporary–classical repertoire, a body of work comparable in scope and in­vention to Duke Ellington’s.” (John Fordham, The Guardian, 1.26.2016