Beneath the Underdog - Softcover

Mingus, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0862415454 ISBN 13: 9780862415457

Verlag: Payback Press, 1998

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These memoirs are of the great bassist and jazz composer Charles Mingus. Completed years before his death in 1979, this is the story of: growing up in the Watts, Los Angeles of the 1920s and 30s, ruled by a strap-wielding father and Bible-quoting stepmother; Mingus's outcast adolescent years ("a yella kid, running with the mongrels"); his apprenticeship, not only with jazzmen, but also with pimps, hookers, junkies and hoodlums; and his golden years in New York City with such legendary figures as Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday. Here is Mingus in his own words, from shabby roadhouses to fabulous estates, from the psychiatric wards of Bellevue to worlds of mysticism and solitude. But for all his travels, he never strayed too far, always returning to the music.

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• Verlag: Payback Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0862415454
• ISBN 13: 9780862415457
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288