If I’m going to die, I’m ready. But I’m going out playing ‘Sophisticated Lady.’
Charles Mingus, in response to a bomb threat at a 1972 Yale University concert.
He continued to play, and “coming from inside [the otherwise evacuated hall] was the sound of Mingus intently playing Ellington’s dreamy thirties hit […] going on and on and getting hotter. In the street, Ellington stood in the waiting crowd just beyond the theatre’s open doors, smiling.”
Wow.
He continued to play, and “coming from inside [the otherwise evacuated hall] was the sound of Mingus intently playing Ellington’s dreamy thirties hit […] going on and on and getting hotter. In the street, Ellington stood in the waiting crowd just beyond the theatre’s open doors, smiling.”
Wow.
Lemkin 