Susan Mingus (née Graham, April 2, 1930 – September 24, 2022) was an American record producer and band manager.
She was married to jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus, and formed tribute groups to perform his music after his death.
[1] Her father, Louis, was a mathematician and engineer who had aspired to be an opera singer; her mother was a housewife who played the harp and piano.
[1] She then worked as an editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris for two years, before being employed by Clipper, Pan Am's in-flight magazine, in Rome.
[1][2] After her husband's death from Lou Gehrig's disease in 1979,[2][3] Mingus established bands to perform his music, beginning with the Mingus Dynasty, a septet that tours internationally and performs regularly at Jazz Standard in New York City.
[6][8] She later produced Mingus's Epitaph, first in 1989 for its premiere at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center for thirty-one musicians, and again in 2007 when it toured four cities and was broadcast by National Public Radio.