Beneath The Underdog: His World As Composed By Mingus science splicing together American hip-hop and

splicing together American hip-hop and soul with the sounds of the British underground

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produced two hit singles and sold more than two million copies making it one of the most successful debut albums of all time

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Beneath The Underdog: His World As Composed By Mingus science splicing together American hip-hop andBy Charles Mingus 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 during the 1920s and 1930s; his outcast adolescent years; his apprenticeship, not only with