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Beneath The Underdog

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Beneath The Underdog

By Charles Mingus

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About the book

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 ...Show more

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ISBN

9781782118824

Publisher

Canongate Books Ltd

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

Beneath The Underdog

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Paperback

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