Modern Library, June 2000. Hardcover. This absorbing collection of letters spans a decade in the lifelong friendship of two remarkable writers who engaged the subjects of literature, race, and identity with deep clarity and passion. The correspondence begins in 1950 when Ellison is living in New York City, hard at..... More
Vintage Books, February 1997. Paper Back. In the triumphant concluding volume of the trilogy that began with Whistle Guitar and The Spyglass Tree, Albert Murray gives us what is at once an African American coming-of-age novel and a pitch-perfect evocation of a touring jazz band at the height of the..... More
Pantheon Books, January 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. In the triumphant concluding volume of the trilogy that began with Whistle Guitar and The Spyglass Tree, Albert Murray gives us what is at once an African American coming-of-age novel and a pitch-perfect evocation of a touring jazz band at the height of..... More
Modern Library, February 1995. Cloth. In lightly edgeworn dustjacket. Grey cloth with gold lettering on spine edge. More
Da Capo, August 1989. Trade Paperback. This study of the blues by one of America's premier essayists and novelists will change old attitudes about a tradition that continues to feed the very heart of popular music--a blues that dances, shakes, shimmies, and exchanges bad news for stomping, rollicking, pulse-quickening good..... More
Da Capo Press, March 2002. Paper Back. Count Basie (1904-1984), pianist, composer, and icon of big-band jazz, known for such classics as "Jumpin' at the Woodside," "Cherokee," and "One O'Clock Jump," recounts his life story to Albert Murray with all the charm and dry humor of two friends sitting at..... More
