By Phin Upham Born in Nogales Arizona, Charles Mingus was the third child to an Army Sergeant. Mingus’ mother died shortly after she gave birth to him, just after the family relocated to the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Mingus found an outlet in music, playing both the trombone and the cello from an early…
By Phin Upham Henley was born in Gilmer Texas in 1947, and raised in Linden near the Arkansas Louisiana border. He had piano lessons as a child and his father had a love for music, keeping records in the house and playing an eclectic set of tunes. Henley fondly recalls the music of post war…
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