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Mingus - A Critical Biography (Paperback, Revised)
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Mingus - A Critical Biography (Paperback, Revised)
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Loot Price R578
Discovery Miles 5 780
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It would be no exaggeration to call Charles Mingus the greatest
bass player in the history of jazz indeed, some might even regard
it as understatement, for the hurricane power of his work as a
composer, teacher, band leader, and iconoclast reached far beyond
jazz while remaining true to its heritage in the music of Duke
Ellington, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk. In this new
biography Brian Priestley has written a masterly study of Mingus's
dynamic career from the early years in Swing, to the escapades of
the Bebop era, through his musical maturity in the '50s when he
directed a band that redefined collective improvisation in jazz.
Woven in with exacting assessments of Mingus's artistic legacy is
the story of his volatile, unpredictable, sometimes dangerous
personality. The book views Mingus as a black artist increasingly
politicized by his situation, but also unreliable as a witness to
his own persecution. Capturing him in all his furious
contradictions,passionate, cool, revolutionary but with a keen
sense of tradition,Brian Priestley has produced what can be called,
again without exaggeration, the best biography of a jazz musician
we have ever seen.
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