Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues

by Albert Murray and Greg Thomas

The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the birth of Albert Murray (1916-2013), who in thirteen books was by turns a lyrical novelist, a keen and iconoclastic social critic, and a formidable interpreter of jazz and blues. Not only did his prizewinning study Stomping the Blues (1976) influence musicians far and wide, it was also a foundational text for Jazz at Lincoln Center, which he cofounded with Wynton Marsalis and others in 1987. Murray...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816699550
• ISBN13: 9780816699551
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"