" data-original-title="" title="">Charles Mingus is not still around to welcome them into the fold for it is in his restless spirit that Choi and his Tiny Orkester move and have their being. This is Jungsu Choi himself describing how he works: "In front of an empty sheet, I go on a fishing expedition to find notes that will fill out the blank measure.

"Sometimes it takes more than a week to fill a single measure, which is a difficult and lonely time. Suddenly, I grab a vague idea that seems to float through the air. However, in the majority of cases, this first idea is not the right one and instead is thrown out because it might be a clich��, old fashioned or simply too plain. For me, writing a piece of music is a laborious series of choices and throwing ideas away again and again."

Choi's list of people who inspire and motivate his choices includes—as Mingus's too surely would have done—