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But that epic story has never been told with this kind of breadth

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which from the start has encompassed the full sweep of blues

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Stevie Ray Vaughan

Beneath The Underdog: His World As Composed By Mingus elton john But that epic story hasBy 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