Lida Moser News Today

Mingus biographer Dr Nichole Rustin-Paschal offers an academic perspective on the musical legacy of one of the most iconic figures in jazz history

HIGH POINT Vivian Moser Washington’s house on E. Commerce Avenue looks pretty much the same as it did when she was growing up there. Same small, two-story frame. Same front porch. Same two upstairs windows that open out onto the roof of the porch. What’s missing are the front-porch columns that once supported the roof. Washington, now 70, says they’ve long since been replaced, but those columns were not insignificant — one morning more than half a century ago, they helped sa...