Klassisk selvbiografi. Å lese denne er like nødvendig for jazzkunnskapen som å høre Mingus. This book is the purest of dynamite...Somber, comic, disturbing, boastful, confessional, sentimental, contradictory, poetic, irascible, impish, lyrical, nasty, angelic, reflective, expressionistic, picaresque, jive...this is a powerful book - Rolling Stone.