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Myself When I am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus by Gene Santoro (Hardcover, 2000)

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Author:Santoro, Gene. A pioneering bassist and composer, Mingus redefined jazz's terrain. Myself When I am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus. Child 44 (Large Print Book), Smith, Tom Rob. A new book will be sold once but their stories can be enjoyed by more than one owner.

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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 temperament, he was a highly-strung and sensitive romantic, a towering figure whose tempestuous personal life found powerfully coherent expression in the ever-shifting textures of his music. Now, 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. He penned over 300 works spanning gutbucket gospel, Colombian cumbias, orchestral tone poems, multimedia performance, and chamber jazz. By the time he was 35, his growing body of music won increasing attention as it unfolded into one pioneering musical venture after another, from classical-meets-jazz extended pieces to spoken-word and dramatic performances and television and movie soundtracks.