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Here are three interesting quotes about the Money Jungle session, straight from Duke Ellington (from the superb book, A Portrait of Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo, by Stuart Nicholson): 1) Money Jungle with Max Roach and Charlie Mingus was quite an experience. One thing great about it was...

In response to the following question by Paul Rubin in the book Jazz Spoken Here -- "Do you know anything about the famous Money Jungle session that joined your father with Mingus and Max Roach? Didn't Mingus storm out of that date at one point?" -- Mercer Ellington replied, "He [i.e., Mingus]...