Hard Bop, Booze & 26 Hookers: Charles Mingus - "Take The 'A" Train" (BBNG Excerpt)
Matt Horowitz
Who would you rather
challenge to a drinking competition:
Tom Waits or
Charles Mingus?
"From what I know about
Charles Mingus, he was one of the most fucking badass
Jazz musicians of all time. I think I read in his
book that he slept with nine hookers in one night or some shit, pretty crazy. Have you seen the video of him with a shotgun where the cops are trying to evict him from his house? [...] I also heard this story about how he drank a ton of wine once before a show. One of his horn
players screwed up and he literally picked up his upright bass and hit him with it."