false 3602957 1 A wild, lyrical, and anguished autobiography, in which Charles Mingus pays short shrift to the facts but plunges to the very bottom of his psyche, coming up for air only when it pleases him. He takes the reader through his childhood in Watts, his musical education by the likes of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Parker, and his prodigious appetites--intellectual, culinary, and sexual. The book is a jumble, but a glorious one, by a certified American genius. 3645674 1971 Beneath the underdog;: His world as composed by Mingus total:1|3:1| 1 3 3 0 0 0 false false Thu Apr 09 13:01:02 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 13:01:02 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Dec 29 12:30:59 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 12:31:04 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Mon Dec 29 14:38:38 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 09:25:18 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 14:38:38 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3602957