MAPtet performed music by Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Eric Dolphy: Paul Hartsaw (alto and tenor saxophones), Bill MacKay (electric guitar), Ed Roberson (poetry), Dan Godston (trumpet), Nick Moran (baritone saxophone, flute, and bass clarinet), Jon Godston (soprano saxophone), Joel Wanek (upright bass), and Ben Gray (drums)

MAPtet set list: “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” (Charles Mingus), “Pithecanthropus Erectus” (Mingus), “Gazzelloni” (Eric Dolphy), “From Bechet, Byas & Fats” (Rahsaan Roland Kirk), “Better Get Hit in Your Soul” (Mingus), “Jelly Roll” (Mingus), “Fables of Faubus” (Mingus), “Rip, Rig, & Panic” (Kirk), “Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love” (Mingus), “Peggy’s Blue Skylight” (Mingus), and “Prayer for Passive Resistance” (Mingus)

Brian Jones (Guitar) Quartet: Trey Pollard (guitar), Alan Parker (guitar), Matt Hall (bass), and Brian Jones (drums)

Mingus Awareness Project Quintet: John D’earth (trumpet), J.C. Kuhl (tenor saxophone), Randall Pharr (upright bass), Bob Hallahan (piano), and Brian Jones (drums)

Mingus Awareness Project Big Band, conducted by Doug Richards: John D’earth (trumpet), Taylor Barnett (trumpet), Bob Miller (trumpet), Scott Frock (trumpet), J.C. Kuhl (tenor saxophone), Kevin Simpson (tenor saxophone), John Winn (alto saxophone), Jason Scott (alto saxophone), Stephen Norfleet (baritone saxophone), Pete Anderson (trombone), Bryan Hooten (trombone), Sam Savage (trombone), Reggie Chapman (bass trombone), Stefan Demetriadis (tuba/bass trombone), Bob Hallahan (piano), Alan Parker (guitar), Randall Pharr (upright bass), and Brian Jones (drums)

MAPtet set list: “Jelly Roll” (Charles Mingus), “Domino” (Rahsaan Roland Kirk), “Portrait” (Mingus), “Gazzelloni (Eric Dolphy), “Fables of Faubus” (Mingus), “Better Get Hit in Your Soul” (Mingus), “Goodbye Porkpie Hat” (Mingus), “From Bechet, Byas and Fats” (Kirk), “Rip, Rig & Panic” / “On the Spot” (Kirk / Jaki Byard), “Peggy’s Blue Skylight” (Mingus), “Pithecanthropus Erectus” (Mingus), and “Prayer for Passive Resistance” (Mingus)

Justin Dillard performed a set of solo piano.

Sue Mingus talked about the Jazz Workshop, Inc., and she read an excerpt from her memoir "Tonight at Noon" (by cell phone).

MAPtet performed music by Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Eric Dolphy -- Rich Corpolongo (alto saxophone),Saalik Ziyad (vocals),Paul Hartsaw (tenor saxophone), Dan Godston (trumpet), Nick Moran (baritone saxophone and bass clarinet), Jon Godston (soprano saxophone), Norman Palm (trombone), Alex Wing (upright bass), and Jerry Coleman (drums)

Alan Kurtz, jazz.com's resident curmudgeon, shares his thought-provoking (and sometimes just plain provoking) commentaries here on a regular basis. Say what you will about Alan (and, more or less, it has already been said), but give the man his due: he doesn't forget birthdays.

In honor of Charles Mingus's birthday (April 22), Kurtz looks at the "Mexican" connection between this larger-than-life bassist and the equally supersized director Orson Welles. Both found inspiration in the border town of Tijuana at almost the same moment, but what these two artists did with it couldn't have been more different. T.G.

Touch of Evil

Bassist/composer Charles Mingus was born April 22, 1922, at an Army base in Nogales, Arizona, along the Mexican border. He died less than 57 years later in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Between those two events, Mingus recorded Tijuana Moods, an album inspired by his 1957 visit to yet another Mexican locale. That same year, actor/director Orson Welles filmed Touch of Evil, the story of a police investigation into the planting of a bomb in a car as it is about to cross from Mexico into the U.S., where the vehicle's unsuspecting occupants are killed by the ensuing blast.

The Time Out Legacy Edition will feature two CDs and a DVD. The DVD features a new 30-minute documentary on the making of Time Out, including footage of Brubeck illustrating selections from Time Out at the piano. The audio portion of this package features over 90 minutes of music, including an entire second disc of previously unreleased live recordings from the Newport Jazz Festival from 1961-'64.

Sketches Of Spain was released in 1960, but recorded in '59. The two-CD Legacy Edition of this collaboration between Gil Evans and Davis features more than two hours of music: the original album along with rehearsal and alternate takes previously heard only on the 1996 set Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings, plus the lone ever live performance by Davis with Evans, “Concierto De Aranjuez" performed at Carnegie Hall on May 19, 1961.

The two-CD Mingus Ah Um features more than two-and-a-half hours of music over, including Mingus Ah Um and its sequel, Mingus Dynasty, in their entirety, plus four bonus tracks from the sessions and three alternate takes.