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Mingus Speaks
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Charles Mingus
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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In-depth interviews, conducted several years before Mingus died, capture the composer's spirit and voice, revealing how he saw himself as composer and performer
Myself When I am Real
Language: en
Pages: 479
Authors: Gene Santoro
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-11-29 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th Century, and ranks with Ives and Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. By t
Mingus/Mingus
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Janet Coleman
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

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Two friends of the late jazz musician and composer relate their memories of him as their guide in the flamboyent literary art world of the Eisenhower/Kennedy er
Mingus, a Critical Biography
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Brian Priestley
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982 - Publisher: London : Quartet Books

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"It would be no exaggeration to call Charles Mingus the greatest bass player in the history of jazz; indeed, some might even regard it as understatement, for th
Better Git It in Your Soul
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Krin Gabbard
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-08 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"This biography traces the output of jazz master Charles Mingus--his recordings, his compositions, and his writings--highlighting key moments in his life and mu