{"product_id":"murray-talks-music-9780816699551","title":"Murray Talks Music","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Albert Murray is . . . an authority on soul from the days of old . . . and commands respect. He doesn't have to look it up. If you want to know, look him up. He is the unsquarest person I know.\"—Duke Ellington\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Like Barthes and Bazin, Murray is a truly original thinker . . . \u003ci\u003eMurray Talks Music\u003c\/i\u003e is irresistibly stimulating.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The name Albert Murray was never household familiar. Yet his complex, mind-opening analysis of art and life remains as timely as ever—probably more so. Devlin’s book is both a public service and a testament to how Murray could impress and inspire those who came in contact with him.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Insightful.\" —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eMurray Talks Music \u003c\/i\u003ebears indelible witness to the writer’s role in elevating both jazz itself and the scholarship surrounding the music.\" —\u003ci\u003eJazzTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Murray is rare touchstone writer for jazz. Indeed, there’s an argument that the later career of Wynton Marsalis and the entire edifice of Jazz at Lincoln Center is founded on Murray’s work. This is the only case of a major jazz musician treating the work of a major jazz writer with such reverence.\"—Ethan Iverson, \u003ci\u003eDO THE M@TH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A compelling and comprehensive work, which will no doubt make Murrayites of us all.\"—\u003ci\u003eDownBeat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Before \u003ci\u003eMurray Talks Music\u003c\/i\u003e, there was little in print of Albert Murray as spontaneous orator. This new collection corrects that problem and shows how brilliant he could be even when he didn’t have time to polish his prose.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Arts Fuse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eMurray Talks: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues\u003c\/i\u003e is further testimony to the fact that Murray was a charming character and a determined thinker. It is a fascinating edition to the Murray canon.\" —\u003ci\u003eLiving Blues\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The freewheeling give-and-take in \u003ci\u003eMurray Talks Music\u003c\/i\u003e is robust and colorful. In conversation, Murray was even more of a paradigmatic jazzman in his spontaneous digressions and in his ability to call on a breathtaking range of resources and references.\" —\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"If Allan Bloom was right that 'this is the age of music and the states of soul that accompany it,' then Albert Murray is a guide for our time. Against this backdrop, we can appreciate the posthumous publication of Murray’s work.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Weekly Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword: St. George and the Blues\u003cbr\u003eGary Giddins\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Albert Murray: Talking the Blues and So Much More\u003cbr\u003ePaul Devlin\u003cbr\u003e1. Interview with Wynton Marsalis\u003cbr\u003e2. Interview with Dizzy Gillespie\u003cbr\u003e3. Interview with Dan Minor\u003cbr\u003e4. Interview with Greg Thomas\u003cbr\u003e5. A Talk at St. John’s University (with Paul Devlin)\u003cbr\u003e6. Interview with Russell Neff\u003cbr\u003e7. Liner Notes to \u003ci\u003eRevelations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlues Suite\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Murray’s Note on The Second Line and The Third Line\u003cbr\u003e9. Foreword to \u003ci\u003eThe World Don’t Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. Foreword to \u003ci\u003eMitchell \u0026amp; Ruff: An American Profile in Jazz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. Interview with Paul Devlin\u003cbr\u003e12. Murray’s 1958 Morocco Lecture Notes (translated by Lauren Walsh)\u003cbr\u003e13. Biographical Sketch of Count Basie\u003cbr\u003e14. Interview with Susan Page\u003cbr\u003e15. Interview with Robert G. O’Meally\u003cbr\u003e16. A Discussion of Duke Ellington with Loren Schoenberg and Stanley Crouch\u003cbr\u003e17. Jazz: Notes Toward a Definition\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: The Blues and Jazz as Aesthetic Statement\u003cbr\u003eGreg Thomas\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 1: Albert Murray’s Canon of Jazz Arrangements\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 2: American Patterns and Variations on Rhythm and Tune: An Ellington-Strayhorn List\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405980868951,"sku":"9780816699551","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816699551.jpg?v=1730494127","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/murray-talks-music-9780816699551","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}