Myself when I am real: the life and music of Charles Mingus

"Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the twentieth century and ranks with Ives and Ellington as one of America's greatest composers." "Myself When I Am Real draws on dozens of new interviews and previously overlooked archival materials to highlight the...

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1. Verfasser: Santoro, Gene (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford Univ. Press 2000
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Zusammenfassung:"Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the twentieth century and ranks with Ives and Ellington as one of America's greatest composers." "Myself When I Am Real draws on dozens of new interviews and previously overlooked archival materials to highlight the intricate connections between this man and his music. A pioneering bassist and composer, Mingus penned over 300 works spanning gut-bucket gospel, Colombian cumbias, orchestral tone poems, multimedia performance, and chamber jazz. Although early critics and musicians debated his musical merits and his personality, by the late 1950s he was widely recognized as a major jazz star. But Mingus got headlines less for his art than for his volatile and often provocative behavior, which drew fans who wanted to watch his temper suddenly flare onstage. Santoro probes the sore spots in Mingus's easily wounded nature that made him so explosive: his bullying father, his interracial background, his vulnerability to women and distrust of men, his views of political and social issues, and his overwhelming need for love and acceptance. He also traces Mingus's musical development, from racially mixed Watts, where he mingled with artists and writers as well as mobsters, union toughs, and pimps, to postwar Greenwich Village, where he absorbed and extended the radical improvisation of Allen Ginsberg, Jackson Pollock, and Charlie Parker."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:X, 452 S., [8] Bl. Ill.
ISBN:0195097335

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