Table of Contents

* Bass-ically Speaking * West Coast Ghost * Bird Calls * Fifty-First Street Blues * All the Things You Could Be By Now * Money Jungle * Black Saint * Put Me in That Dungeon * Myself When I Am Real * Epitaph Appendixes: * Musical Examples * Non-Standard Chorus Structures in Mingus Compositions * An Analysis of The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady * Discography

About the Author

Brian Priestley was born in Manchester, England in 1946. Jazz pianist and critic, he also presents a weekly jazz program for the BBC in London where he now lives.