If already familiar with Mingus’ music, a reader may return to favorites with fresh ears and deeper insights. Royal Stokes Blog "' Better Git It In Your Soul draws the reader to listening to its subject’s productions. Certainly no one has heretofore delved as deeply and thoroughly into what made him tick." - W. Reviews "Will likely long stand as the definitive account of the genius, and enigma, that was this great bassist, bandleader, and composer.
Capturing many essential moments in jazz history anew, Better Git It in Your Soul will fascinate anyone who cares about jazz, African American history, and the artist’s life. Gabbard sets aside the myth-making and convincingly argues that Charles Mingus created a unique language of emotions-and not just in music. He digs into how and why Mingus chose to do so much self-analysis, how he worked to craft his racial identity in a world that saw him simply as “black,” and how his mental and physical health problems shaped his career. After exploring the most important events in Mingus’s life, Krin Gabbard takes a careful look at Mingus as a writer as well as a composer and musician. But, as the autobiography reveals, he was also a hopeless romantic. His vivid autobiography, Beneath the Underdog, has done much to shape the image of Mingus as something of a wild man: idiosyncratic musical genius with a penchant for skirt-chasing and violent outbursts. Classically trained and of mixed race, he was an outspoken innovator as well as a bandleader, composer, producer, and record-label owner.
Charles Mingus is one of the most important-and most mythologized-composers and performers in jazz history.
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