Myself When I Am Real - Santoro, Gene (, Former Fulbright scholar, book editor and musician. He is a music critic at the ^INew York Daily News^R and columnist at ^IThe Nation and Chamber Music^R. The author of ^IDancing in Your Head^R and ^IStir it up^R.)

Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th century. This new biography by the acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro argues that Mingus was not only a great musician and composer but a central character in the postwar American cultural renaissance.