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Beneath The Underdog

«There has never been an autobiography like Beneath the Underdog. A riveting work of highly subjective reminiscences and tortured self-analysis»

RICHARD WILLIAMS

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. Les mer

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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.

Detaljer

Forlag
Canongate Canons
Innbinding
Paperback
Språk
Engelsk
Sider
320
ISBN
9781782118824
Utgivelsesår
2019
Format
20 x 13 cm

Anmeldelser

«There has never been an autobiography like Beneath the Underdog. A riveting work of highly subjective reminiscences and tortured self-analysis»

RICHARD WILLIAMS

«A shocking and brilliant book»

* Q Magazine *

«An outlandish, brilliant autobiography»

* Newsweek *

«A pure genius»

MILES DAVIS

«A fascinating insight into Mingus' mind - unforgettable»

* The Times *

«The purest of dynamite»

* Rolling Stone *

Kunders vurdering

M
Mattias – 30.07.2006

– En av jazzens största och inflytelserika musiker och kompositörer har skrivit en självbiografi som inte liknar många andra biografier. Mingus beskriver sitt liv från barndomen i Watts och fram till att han blir hyllad musiker och han gör det på ett ärligt och rättframt sätt. Det blir både våldsamt, personligt, rörande och brutalt när Mingus beskriver ett liv som involverat en fattigt barndom, karriär som hallick, kämpande musiker och självintagna perioder på mentalsjukhus. Mingus skryter gärna om alla kvinnor han mött och beskriver en del episoder och samtal som man kan ställa sig tveksam hur nära sanningen han håller sig. Men boken är en fascinerande inblick en mycket spännade musikers liv och tankar.

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