Celebrated jazz musician Gary Crosby OBE was a founding member of the group Jazz Warriors in the 80s and was awarded an OBE in 2009 for Services to Music, and in 2018 became the first jazz musician to be awarded the Queen’s Medal for Music. Here, he digs deep into one of the albums that influenced his career the most, Charles Mingus’ The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady.

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