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After graduate school at the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, I taught English in New York at NYU and City College during the Vietnam years. I also wrote a music column for the New Leader, a notable small leftish monthly, and then wrote on jazz, classical and rock for Playboy for nine years.

Mingus was a source of fascination for me, both because of his music and his outspoken opinions on everything. Playboy commissioned my review of Mingus’s “comeback” concert in February 1972, and from there we got to know and trust each other so as to begin the interviews that would finally lead to this book.

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“Erano quasi luoghi di culto, in cui musicisti e pubblico condividevano un'intimità etilica (come accede ancora oggi naturalmente)”
John F. Goodman, Mingus Speaks
tags: mingus

“Se cominciassi a ragionare al contrario, camminerei all'indietro.”
John F. Goodman, Mingus Speaks
tags: mingus

“The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.”
Stéphane Mallarme

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