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Beneath The Underdog (Paperback, Main - Canons Reissue) Loot Price: R273
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Beneath The Underdog (Paperback, Main - Canons Reissue): Charles Mingus

Beneath The Underdog (Paperback, Main - Canons Reissue)

Charles Mingus; Introduction by Richard Williams

Series: Canons

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Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated, wild, funny, demonic, anguished, shocking and profoundly moving memoir, is the greatest autobiography ever written by a jazz musician. It tells of his God-haunted childhood in Watts during the 1920s and 1930s; his outcast adolescent years; 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 Dizzy Gillespie. 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 never straying too far, always returning to music.

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Imprint: Canongate Canons
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Canons
Release date: March 2019
Authors: Charles Mingus
Introduction by: Richard Williams
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 320
Edition: Main - Canons Reissue
ISBN-13: 978-1-78211-882-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre
Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre
LSN: 1-78211-882-9
Barcode: 9781782118824

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