Stomping the Blues

This study of the blues by one of Americaâ€™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 times.

Arts & Photography

Albert Murray

Music

McGraw=Hill

Trainwhistle Guitar

McGraw Publishing

Dust jacket design by Stan Skardinski. His first novel and the initial book in his blues trilogy.

Train Whistle Guitar

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

A joyous and important collection of letters between two great American writers and old friends, baring their hearts to each other about life, work, and the American scene. When two jazz musicians trade twelves with each other in a jam session, one musician begins by riffing off twelve bars of music, the other musician throws the twelve bars back through his instrument, the first answers, and so on, back and forth, in an ecstatic exchange of ideas and emotions. So it is with these letters, joyful music created by the exchanges between two dear friends. Reading these letters, you sense that each man was the other's lifeline, that the emotional and intellectual companionship they found in each other was unique in their lives. They spill it all out here--their struggles, frustrations, ambitions, fears; thoughts on literary gossip, jazz, photography--and the result is literary history, and a book that reminds you what friendship is all about.

Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray (Modern Library)

Biographies & Memoirs

Ralph Ellison

Arts & Literature

Modern Library

Presents the life and times of the great jazz musician and band leader as told by the man himself, from his early days playing pickup at local social events, through his arrival--and eventual triumph--in New York

Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie (as Told to Albert Murray)

Count Basie

Random House]

Romare Bearden in Black-And-White: Photomontage Projections, 1964

Romare Bearden in Black-And-White: Photomontage Projections, 1964

Thelma Golden

Gail Gelburd

Corporate Author-Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris

Individual Artists

Whitney Museum of American Art

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