In an age when solid flesh melts into pixels and transformative inner rage is diffused in click-bait outrage, we need Mingus more than ever. Thanks to Sue Mingus (an American Cosima Wagner, but on the side of the angels), New Yorkers can get their fix every Monday from a 14-piece band so tight, yet so loose, that Mingus himself would have chased them with an axe only rarely. —E.E.