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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784662103321

Autore

Santoro Gene

Titolo

Myself when I am real [[electronic resource] ] : the life and music of Charles Mingus / / Gene Santoro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-19-802578-5

1-280-53212-2

1-4237-4643-0

1-60256-692-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 452 p., [16] p. of plates ) : ill., ports

Disciplina

781.65092

Soggetti

Jazz musicians - United States

Biography

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2000.

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-399).

Discography: (p. 401-424).

Nota di contenuto

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; Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Music critic Gene Santoro strips away the myths shrouding jazz's angry man, revealing Mingus as more complex than even his lovers and close friends knew. A pioneering bassist and composer, Mingus redefined jazz's terrain.