In ’78 I bought my first fake book. ‘Fables of Faubus’ was one of the first tunes I came across. ’79 Mingus died. I never saw him live. During my New York years I heard countless stories from fellow musicians who performed with him. This unsung hero became one of my biggest inspirations over the years. I experimented with scordatura and came up with ‘my’ Mingus tuning, E-A-eb-ab, which gives the bass a ‘major’ flavor, a quite fitting color for this giant of music.