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Charles Mingus, the jazz bassist and composer, tells his own life story in Beneath the Underdog, an autobiography he worked on for more than two decades. It moves from a childhood in Watts in the 1920s and 1930s through an outcast adolescence and an apprenticeship spent among jazzmen, pimps, junkies and hoodlums, to his years in New York alongside Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and others. The settings range from shabby roadhouses and grand estates to the psychiatric wards of Bellevue. Alfred A. Knopf published it in 1971 after the editor Nel King cut more than two thirds of the original manuscript, giving the pimp stories more weight than they had in the draft.
Lofelt co-founder and CEO Daniel Buttner named it among the biographies he liked, as one of the books that sparked a new line of thought for him.
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Daniel Buttner (CEO & Co-Founder/Lofelt)
There are a couple of books that inspired me or gave ignition to a new thought process. In terms of biographies, I liked Charles Mingus - Beneath the Underdog.
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