Low End (omaggio: CM) pays modest homage to the music of jazz giant, Charles Mingus. While the tuba part frequently refers in general to the jazz idiom - a realm where I spent many of my early years in music - the work specifically visits Boris Lozlov's unaccompanied bass solo in the 1999 recording of the Mingus classic: Haitian Fight Song. Low End was written for Sam Pilafian, a friend, colleague, and multi-faceted musician whose work as a performing and recording artist encompasses both jazz and classical music.