"Hard-boiled" would be accurate. BENEATH THE UNDERDOG has
been labeled as about 90% fiction on Mingus' part by people
who would know.
Brian
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Brian wrote:
"Speaking of books on jazz musicians and Charles
Mingus, there's a great
book about Mingus, his classical musical
education, his demons, his
devastating originality called "But Beautiful."
It bears a look."
I've heard good things about his autobiography,
Beneath the Underdog, at
least portions of which are supposed to be pretty
hardboiled and/or
noir.
Mark
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