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The Mingus Big Band Performs 'Fables of Faubus'

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The Mingus Big Band performs "Fables of Faubus" with Charles McPherson on saxophone.

The Mingus Big Band performs "Fables of Faubus" with guest artist Charles McPherson on saxophone. Known as one of his most explicitly political works, "Fables of Faubus" was written by Charles Mingus as a protest against the segregationist governor of Arkansas, Orval E. Faubus.

AIR DATE 10/14/22

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