The Library of Congress is home to the Charles Mingus Collection, the institution's first acquisition of a jazz composer's personal papers and the first multi-format jazz collection process by the Music Division of the Library of Congress.
The following is a guest post from Ben West, writer, director, producer, performer, and musical theatre historian. He is currently a curator for the forthcoming Museum of Broadway in Times Square, New York City. He is also currently writing and developing several stage projects including The Show Time! Trilogy, three new documentary musicals about the evolution …