Leroy Neiman Sketchbook: Charles Mingus

LeRoy Neiman Sketchbook: Charles MingusI first sketched a young, handsome Charles Mingus commanding his bull fiddle in Chicago clubs in the late Fifties. later, in the late Sixties and early Seventies. I did pen-and-ink sketches of him while he worked the New York clubs, constantly clad in his custom-made black-silk shirts. Mingus was a challenging and controversial man, a fine conductor, a brilliant composer and a musician of enormous stature. When he was struck by a fatal nerve disease in 1977...