{"id":106,"date":"2006-09-24T13:40:13","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T18:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=106"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:58:33","slug":"mingus-a-critical-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Mingus: A Critical Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0306802171\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/612ADmN0KtL._SL1360_-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/612ADmN0KtL._SL1360_-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/612ADmN0KtL._SL1360_-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/612ADmN0KtL._SL1360_-768x1229.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/612ADmN0KtL._SL1360_.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><b>Brian Priestly (1983)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The British pianist and journalist Brian Priestly has written the first biography of Charles Mingus, and it&#8217;s an excellent piece of work. His emphasis tends to be on the music, which he discusses in a lucid and lively manner. But Priestly recounts the life, too, exalting Mingus&#8217;s devotion to his art and treating even his most self-destructive fiascoes with even-handed sympathy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Priestly (1983) The British pianist and journalist Brian Priestly has written the first biography of Charles Mingus, and it&#8217;s an excellent piece of work. His emphasis tends to be on the music, which he discusses in a lucid and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=106\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}