(Low)life: A Memoir of Jazz, Fight-fixing, and the Mob

(Low)life is a gripping memoir from Charles Farrell, a world-class jazz musician and self-admitted "fight fixer" and "gangster." Farrell trades in the world of jazz for boxing, and becomes business partners with the legendary boxer Floyd Patterson. He is eventually is forced to flee to a farm in Puerto Rico, with a mob contract on his life. After he returns home, with the help of boxing legend Al Braverman, he goes back to jazz and collaborates frequently with his friend Ornette Coleman, the godfather of "Free Jazz."