Word: mingus
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...here's a really horrendous idea for a novel! Two boys growing up together on a bad block in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the 1970s--one's white and introverted, and one's black and cool. The white kid's name is Dylan, and the black kid is called Mingus. And they can fly. Want me to go on? Not really? But listen: if you skip out now, you'll miss one of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year...
...pianist; of a viral infection of the heart; in Hackensack, N.J. The Detroit native, who was knighted by the Liberian government and went by the title "Sir," studied classical piano before joining Benny Goodman's band in 1958. He went on to work with such diverse musicians as Charles Mingus, Sarah Vaughan and Coleman Hawkins...
Hentoff: I used to play the clarinet but I stopped long ago. I couldn’t have made it as a jazz musician, I could have made it as a classical musician, but not with jazz. And as Charles Mingus used to say, I wasn’t interested in spending my life playing other people’s music...
...listen to everything from Mingus, to bands that open for us, to Radiohead’s newest album to Yo La Tengo. But aside from all the Indie-rock stuff, we’re also going back to Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, E-Rex . . . Subconsciously everything influences your writing...
...just so vast and its bounty so prodigious that Burns can't cover all the great ones, even glancingly, which leaves lots still to explore, along with some bad feelings. There has already been griping about who doesn't get enough screen time (Bill Evans, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, Stan Getz) and who hardly shows up at all (many--no, most--vocalists, Stan Kenton, Nat King Cole and his trio, Erroll Garner, Johnny Hodges), which is an inadvertent tribute to the immensity of the legacy that Burns mines broadly, but beautifully. There has also been loud dissatisfaction within the ranks...