Black musician and composer Charles Mingus vividly recalls his past experiences and reflections

Beneath the Underdog

Mingus, Charles

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

His World as Composed by Mingus. Autobiography.

Beneath the Underdog His World as Composed By Mingus

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Alfred.A. Knopf

(Instrumental Jazz). Michael Brecker calls these new collections "a fantastic resource for music students and professionals alike" and Billy Taylor says they make "the music of Mingus become more accessible than ever." These book/CD packs available in C, Eo, Bo and BC editions include two CDs featuring both trio and quartet versions of 14 classic Mingus compositions performed by Mingus Big Band members; musical charts; performance notes; rare photographs; a biography; and historical commentary. Songs include: Fables of Faubus * Goodbye Pork Pie Hat * Gunslinging Bird * Jelly Roll * Peggy's Blue Skylight * Portrait * Slippers * Sue's Changes * and more.

Charles Mingus - More Than a Play-Along: C Instruments

Humor & Entertainment

Hal Leonard

(Instrumental Jazz). Michael Brecker calls these new collections "a fantastic resource for music students and professionals alike" and Billy Taylor says they make "the music of Mingus become more accessible than ever." These book/CD packs available in C, Eb, Bb and BC editions include two CDs featuring both trio and quartet versions of 14 classic Mingus compositions performed by Mingus Big Band members; musical charts; performance notes; rare photographs; a biography; and historical commentary. Songs include: Fables of Faubus * Goodbye Pork Pie Hat * Gunslinging Bird * Jelly Roll * Peggy's Blue Skylight * Portrait * Slippers * Sue's Changes * and more.

More than a Play-Along, Bb Edition

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. “This book is the purest of dynamite. Like the autobiographies of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday and like A. B. Spellman's Four Lives in the Bebop Business, it says more about the American psyche in general and black survival in particular than the sociologists and psychologists ever can in their stiff, soulless vocabularies.... Somber, comic, disturbing, boastful, confessional, sentimental, contradictory, poetic, irascible, impish...lyrical, nasty, angelic, reflective...expressionistic, picaresque, jive...this is a powerful book.”— Rolling Stone

Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus

Vintage

These memoirs are of the great bassist and jazz composer Charles Mingus. Completed years before his death in 1979, this is the story of: growing up in the Watts, Los Angeles of the 1920s and 30s, ruled by a strap-wielding father and Bible-quoting stepmother; Mingus's outcast adolescent years ("a yella kid, running with the mongrels"); 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 Billie Holiday. 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, he never strayed too far, always returning to the music.

Mojo Books

Charles Mingus is a musician, a mongrel musician who plays beautiful, who plays ugly, who plays lovely, who plays masculine, who plays feminine, who plays all sounds, loud, soft, unheard sounds, sounds, sounds, sounds . . .Beneath the Underdog is the memoir of the Angry Man of jazz, Charles Mingus - the genius whose adventures began at the feet of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker, and led him on a tour of every bottle, bar and bed in the world.  An unparalleled self-portrait of an artist, Beneath the Underdog is a tour as dizzying, otherworldly, raging and sexy as the man and his music.

Beneath The Underdog (Canons)

Canongate Canons

Beneath the Underdog.

Arts & Photography

Music

Edition Nautilus

Peggio di un bastardo. L'autobiografia

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Beneath the Underdog

Beneath the Underdog His World as Composed By Mingus

Charles Mingus - More Than a Play-Along: C Instruments

More than a Play-Along, Bb Edition

Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus

Beneath the Underdog

Beneath The Underdog (Canons)

Beneath the Underdog.

Peggio di un bastardo. L'autobiografia