Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Prologue: Better Get It in Your Soul -- 1: Growing Up Absurd -- 2: Black Like Me -- 3: Making the Scene -- 4: Life During Wartime -- 5: Portrait of the Artist -- 6: The Big Apple, or On the Road -- 7: Pithecanthropus Erectus -- 8: Mingus Dynasty -- 9: Camelot -- 10: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady -- 11: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest -- 12: Beneath the Underdog -- 13: Let My Children Hear Music -- 14: Changes -- 15: Don't Be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid, Too -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.