Staff Pick
Beneath The Underdog
by Charles Mingus & Richard Williams (introduction by)
AUCK IN STOCK
WGTN ON ITS WAY
Pages:
320
Published:
1 Apr 2019
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Canongate Books
ISBN:
9781782118824
A blisteringly powerful self-portrait of 'The Angry Man of Jazz', contemporary of jazz genius Miles Davis.
$28.00
'Better Git it in your Soul', the first track of Charles Mingus' acclaimed album Ah Um, and a fitting description for this book.. Beneath the Underdog is a very gritty and real description of the life of a jazz musician, and a mind tortured by racial injustices.
Tomas, Unity Books wellington
