Living with Music: Jazz Writings

Ralph Ellison
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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.
Genres: MusicEssaysNonfictionJazzHistoryArtMemoir
336 Pages

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