His Final Work

{{Infobox album

| name = His Final Work

| type = studio

| cover =His Final Work.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1977}}

| recorded = November 6, 1977{{cite book|author=Gene Santoro|title=Myself when I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N3k8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA421|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-514711-7|pages=421–}}

| venue =

| studio = Studio 21, New York

| genre = Jazz

| length =

| label = Who's Who in Jazz

| producer = Lionel Hampton

| prev_title = Cumbia & Jazz Fusion

| prev_year = 1977

| next_title =

| next_year =

}}

{{music ratings

|rev1 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev1score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=1005}}

}}

His Final Work is an album credited to Charles Mingus, released in 1977. His Final Work is a reissue of Lionel Hampton Presents Charles Mingus, released in 1977, which was also reissued as The Music of Charles Mingus and credited to Lionel Hampton.{{cite web |first=Brian |last= Priestley |title= Charles Mingus: Hit In The Soul |url=http://thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/p=10105 |publisher=The Wire |accessdate=August 10, 2013}} His Final Work comprises the final recording session that Mingus played an instrument on.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jazzdisco.org/charles-mingus/discography/#771106|title=Charles Mingus Discography}} Shortly after the completion of the recording sessions, Mingus was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis which would lead to his death. The album features arrangements of Mingus's compositions by Paul Jeffrey.{{cite book|author=Krin Gabbard|title=Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uH4kDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA266|date=8 February 2016|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-26037-5|pages=266–}}

Mingus changed the title of his composition about Nelson Rockefeller's handling of the Attica Prison riot, "Remember Rockefeller at Attica", to "Just for Laughs" to disguise the piece from Hampton who was friends with Rockefeller and a supporter of the Republican Party.