Living with Music

Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings

By: Ralph Ellison

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Paperback | 14 May 2002 | Edition Number 1

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336 Pages

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20.4 x 13.1 x 1.9

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Before Ralph Ellison became one of America’s greatest writers, he was a musician and a student of jazz, writing widely on his favorite music for more than fifty years. Now, jazz authority Robert O’Meally has collected the very best of Ellison’s inspired, exuberant jazz writings in this unique anthology.

Industry Reviews

"No Ellison fan or jazz aficionado should ignore this book." --Publishers Weekly

"Most of us just listen to it, but Ellison truly inhabited jazz. Lovingly collected here for the first time are the creme de la creme of his music pieces. . . . Prose rarely resonates like this." --Library Journal

"The nonfiction pieces repackaged here include considerations of blues, gospel, and flamenco. . . . As the slips of fiction and correspondence gathered here testify, all Ellison writing is jazz writing." --Entertainment Weekly

"[Ellison] may have stopped playing jazz, but he never stopped celebrating it throughout his long literary career." --The Washington Post

"Whether he is writing a homage to Ellington on his seventieth birthday, analyzing how the blues infuses Richard Wright's autobiography or reviewing recordings of Mahalia Jackson, Ellison is insightful while keeping the focus on what role the music plays in American culture." --The New York Times Book Review

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