Charles Mingus is said to have described the epic jazz allegory "Epitaph" as something he'd written for his own tombstone -- a notion that turned out to be sadly prescient, as it was never ...

"Epitaph" is one of jazz's greatest indulgences, a wildly diverse, multi-part, partly-open-ended suite for double big band that its creator Charles Mingus once called a symphony. It's rarely done ...