Myself when I am real : the life and music of Charles Mingus

Myself when I am real : the life and music of Charles Mingus / Gene Santoro.

A pioneering bassist and composer, Mingus redefined jazz's terrain. He penned over 300 works spanning gutbucket gospel, Colombian cumbias, orchestral tone poems and chamber jazz, but got attention less for his art than his volatile behaviour. This biography offers a portrait of the musician.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Santoro, Gene
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
Mingus, Charles, > 1922-1979.
Mingus, Charles, > 1922-1979
Jazz musicians > United States > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Jazz.
Jazz musicians
United States
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Introduction; Prologue: Better Get It in Your Soul; 1 Growing Up Absurd; 2 Black Like Me; 3 Making the Scene; 4 Life During Wartime; 5 Portrait of the Artist; 6 The Big Apple, or On the Road; 7 Pithecanthropus Erectus; 8 Mingus Dynasty; 9 Camelot; 10 The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady; 11 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest; 12 Beneath the Underdog; 13 Let My Children Hear Music; 14 Changes; 15 Don't Be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid, Too; Notes; Bibliography; Discography; Acknowledgments; Index.

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