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Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus gave up accessible and witty scientific narrativeAuthor Contributor(s): Mingus, Charles Publisher: Vintage Date: 9 3 1991 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated, wild, funny, demonic, anguished, shocking, and profoundly moving memoir, is the greatest autobiography ever written by a jazz musician. It tells of his God haunted childhood in Watts