People
November, 1979
Listening to a Philadelphia jazz station one cold January afternoon, I got the word that Charles Mingus had died.Our association went back to the early Seventies, when I approached him about doing an article for Playboy. He'd been through some very hard times but had recently staged a comeback, which had gotten the jazz community talking, his friends enthusiastic, and saw him playing once again at the top of his form. We met several times, taped some conversations, and I got to know Charles and...
