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(Low)life - A Memoir of Jazz, Fight-Fixing, and The Mob (Hardcover)
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(Low)life - A Memoir of Jazz, Fight-Fixing, and The Mob (Hardcover)
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"With deadpan humor, whip-smart insights and some damn fine
sentences, Charles Farrell has written a classic chronicle of life
in the twilight world, on par with masters of the genre like Damon
Runyon, Mezz Mezzrow, Nat Hentoff and Nick Pileggi. A truly great
read."-Debby Applegate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Most
Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, and
author of Madam: The Life of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz-Age A
world-class jazz pianist, Charles Farrell made his living working
Mob clubs from the time he was a teenager in the 1960s. He later
moved from music to the complex world of professional boxing,
managing dozens of fighters, including former heavyweight champion
Leon Spinks and former gang leader Mitch "Blood" Green, who
famously went toe-to-toe with Mike Tyson-once in the ring and once
in the street. A fight-fixer and gangster, Farrell ran afoul of New
York mobsters in the 1990s and retreated to the mountains of Puerto
Rico, coming home only after an infamous boxing legend brokered his
safe return. Retired from the fight game, he returned to jazz and,
among other collaborators, played frequently with his friend
Ornette Coleman, the godfather of "Free Jazz" and one of the
greatest musicians of the twentieth century. (Low)life is a
singular book by a singular man.
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