Krin Gabbard: 3 books

Di formazione classica e di ascendenza mista (aveva nonni cinesi, svedesi e africano-americani), Charles Mingus è stato uno dei più importanti innovatori musicali del XX secolo. Compositore, interprete e produttore discografico, la sua celebre e romanzata autobiografia, "Peggio di un bastardo",...

Charles Mingus is one of the most important—and most mythologized—composers and performers in jazz history. Classically trained and of mixed race, he was an outspoken innovator as well as a bandleader, composer, producer, and record-label owner. His vivid autobiography, Beneath the Underdog, has...

A swinging cultural history of the instrument that in many ways defined a century The twentieth century was barely under way when the grandson of a slave picked up a trumpet and transformed American culture. Before that moment, the trumpet had been a regimental staple in marching bands, a ceremonial...