Charles Mingus: More than a Fake Book Published by Jazz Workshop, Inc., the Fake Book offers 55 compositions, original scores, Mingus commentary, photographs, and musical analyses by Andrew Homzy.

Available through your local bookseller (ISBN 0-7935-0900-9), through Amazon.com or Hal Leonard at 800-321-3408.

"Everything about this book is first class -- conception, execution, format and, above all, content. The transcriptions are impeccable, the annotations informative and insightful, the interviews revealing, and the photos exquisite. Throughout the book Mingus' voice and indomitable spirit are pervasive. No musician who cares about American music in general and jazz music in particular can afford the luxury of being without this book, and for the jazz educator it is an absolute must!”
David Baker, Educator, University of Indiana

"Even non-musicians and fans who don't read music will find it fascinating."
Elvis Costello

"This work is of the greatest importance and unique in the field of jazz. It will be the starting point and the standard reference for any study of the Mingus heritage."
Stephano Zenni

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

BIOGRAPHY

Better Get Hit In Your Soul
Blue Cee
Boogie Stop Shuffle
Canon
Celia
Devil Woman
Diane aka Alice's Wonderland
Dizzy Moods
Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love
Duke's ChoiceE's Flat, Ah's Flat Too
East Coasting
Ecclusiastics
Eclipse
Fables Of Faubus
Farewell Farwell
Free Cell Block F, 'Tis Nazi U.S.A.
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Haitian Fight Song
Hora Decubitus
I Of Hurricane Sue, The
Jelly Roll
Jump Monk
Man Who Never Sleeps
Moanin'
Monk, Bunk And Vice Versa
My Jelly Roll Soul
Nobody Knows (The Bradley I Know)
Noddin' Ya Head Blues
Nostalgia In Times Square
Nouroog
O.P. (Oscar Pettiford)
Oh Lord, Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me
Open Letter To Duke
OPEN LETTER TO THE AVANT GARDE
Opus FourOpus Three
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk
Peggy's Blue SkylightPithecanthropus Erectus
Portrait
Pussy Cat Dues
Reincarnation Of A Lovebird
Remember Rockefeller At Attica
Scenes In The City
Self Portrait In Three Colors
Slippers
Slop
So Long Eric
Sue's Changes
Tonight At Noon
Us Is Two
Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
Weird Nightmare
What Love
Work Song

WHAT IS A JAZZ COMPOSER?

DISCOGRAPHY