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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris snuck out of the White House Friday and made a surprise trip to a D.C. taco shop to mark Cinco de Mayo.
One of the stranger stories in jazz is that of Charles Mingus 18-part, two-hour+ work Epitaph. Originally performed in the fall of 1962, in a shambolic concert/recording session that failed to realize the work fully, the score was re-discovered in 1985, re-constituted by Gunther Schuller, and recorded live in NYC in 1989. For the full story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitaph (Charles Mingus composition) Heard as Mingus (presumably, mostly) intended it to be, it is a stunning work. At 128 minutes, the work is too long for this 2-hour program; the two tracks which have been omitted have been added to the end of the on-demand version of the show. The origins of parts which were not newly-composed for the 1962 version are indicated below.
It was a normal day at HR Records in Northwest DC's Brightwood Park neighborhood until owner Charvis Campbell’s phone started blowing up. First, he got a call from someone he thought was from the Small Business Administration informing him that a senior member of the Vice President’s office might stop by. A few moments later, they