Jazz Musician (22-Apr-1922 — 5-Jan-1979)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Janet Coleman; Al Young. Mingus/Mingus: Two Memoirs. Creative Arts Book Co.. 1989. 164pp.

Todd S. Jenkins. I Know What I Know: The Music of Charles Mingus. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2006. 196pp.

Charles Mingus. Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus. Alfred A. Knopf. 1971. 365pp.

Brian Priestley. Mingus: A Critical Biography. New York: Da Capo Press. 1983. 308pp.

Gene Santoro. Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus. Oxford University Press. 2000. 452pp.

ONLINE PRESENCE

1. Official Website: http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.483)

6. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1018)

7. Current Biography, 1971 Yearbook (pp.274-76)

8. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th Edition (p.671)

9. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.504)

10. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.345)

11. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.346)

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