Photo: MissusK, 2009.
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Song: ‘Eat that Chicken,’ by Charles Mingus from his 1962 album, Oh Yeah*.
One of my favorite reoccurring segments as a jazz DJ was Lunch with Mingus, thirty or forty minutes of Charles Mingus starting at noon. As my show was on Thursday, a few years in a row I had the great pleasure of hosting on Thanksgiving. On account of the holiday, I kicked off my Mingus segment with ‘Eat that chicken’, a crowd pleaser.
*Charles Mingus, piano and vocals | Rahsaan Roland Kirk, woodwinds | Booker Ervin, tenor sax | Jimmy Knepper, trombone | Doug Watkins, bass |Dannie Richmond, drums
