Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus
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Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th century, and ranks with Charles Ives and Duke Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. By temperament, he was a high-strung and sensitive romantic, a towering figure whose tempestuous personal life found powerfully coherent expression in the ever-shifting textures of his music. Now, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro strips away the myths shrouding "Jazz's Angry Man," revealing Mingus
as more complex than even his close friends knew. Written in a lively, novelistic style, Myself When I Am Real draws on dozens of new interviews and previously untapped letters and archival materials
to explore the intricate connections between this extraordinary man and the extraordinary music he made.
Author: Gene Santoro (, Former Fulbright scholar, book editor and musician. He is a music critic at the ^INew York Daily News^R and columnist at ^IThe Nation and Chamber Music^R. The author of ^IDancing in Your Head^R and ^IStir it up^R.)
Format: Paperback, 480 pages, 155mm x 230mm, 708 g
Published: 2002, Oxford University Press Inc, United States
Genre: Biography: The Arts
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Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th century, and ranks with Charles Ives and Duke Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. By temperament, he was a high-strung and sensitive romantic, a towering figure whose tempestuous personal life found powerfully coherent expression in the ever-shifting textures of his music. Now, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro strips away the myths shrouding "Jazz's Angry Man," revealing Mingus
as more complex than even his close friends knew. Written in a lively, novelistic style, Myself When I Am Real draws on dozens of new interviews and previously untapped letters and archival materials
to explore the intricate connections between this extraordinary man and the extraordinary music he made.
Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus