Myself When J Am Real: The Life and...
Myself When J Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus. Gene Santaro. of the present day York: Oxford UP, 2000. 452 pp $3000 "Santaro quick in emergenciess his story like a documentary film collage, with talking heads directing the discourse each page or two--Hentoff, the wives, Knepper Mingus himself. While these italicized quotations are informative, they stagger Santoro's narrative. Rarely
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