Our perennially popular “Mingus Monday” residency continues to revive and reinvent the music of the legendary bassist, composer and bandleader Charles Mingus (1922–1979). The excitement continues to­night with two blazing sets by the Mingus Big Band. “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)