The Mingus Big Band performs 'Fables of Faubus' | Next at the Kennedy Center | PBS

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The Mingus Big Band performs "Fables of Faubus" with guest artist Charles McPherson on saxophone. Known as one of his most explicitly political works, "Fables of Faubus" was written by Charles Mingus as a protest against the segregationist governor of Arkansas, Orval E. Faubus. Now streaming on pbs.org and the PBS Video app.
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The greatest diss track of all time

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Chaotic, i love it. Mingus might be older be he is no less intense!

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He is dead

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This is not Mingus signing and playing alto sax, but Charles McPherson, a veteran jazzman who played with Mingus from 1960 to 1974.

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Beautiful, beautiful , beautiful !!!

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I really like playing classical music it pretty calm

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