I have no idea how true this is...
An old Mingus story has him and his combo in NYC with a noisy table in the crowd. Mingus says to them, "Tell you what, let's trade fours. We'll play four bars and you shut up and listen, then for the next four bars, we'll stop and you can do whatever you want."
An old Mingus story has him and his combo in NYC with a noisy table in the crowd. Mingus says to them, "Tell you what, let's trade fours. We'll play four bars and you shut up and listen, then for the next four bars, we'll stop and you can do whatever you want."
