Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus Synth-pop Matrix / Runout WB 3601-B

Matrix / Runout WB 3601-B 19665

Black Snake Root

Recorded At Terminal C

a division of Sony Music Entertainment / Distributed by Sony Music Entertainment

Originally released on RCA Japan in 1976

Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus Synth-pop Matrix / Runout WB 3601-BBass 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 during the 1920s and 1930s; his outcast adolescent years; his apprenticeship, not only with jazzmen but also