Murray Talks Music : Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues /

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"Murray Talks Music brings together, for the first time, many of Albert Murray's finest interviews and essays on music--most never before published--as well as rare liner notes and prefaces. A celebrated educator and raconteur, and cofounder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Murray engages with a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Murray, Albert
Otros Autores: Devlin, Paul, 1980- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Murray, Albert.
Murray, Albert > Interviews.
Jazz musicians.
Jazz.
Blues (Music)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
Musiciens de jazz > Entretiens.
Blues (Music) > History and criticism.
Jazz musicians > Interviews.
Jazz > History and criticism.
Interviews.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword. St. George and the blues / Gary Giddins
  • Introduction. Albert Murray : making words swing, on and off the page / Paul Devlin
  • "Art is about elegant form" : interview with Wynton Marsalis, 1994
  • "Finding ourselves in the role of elder statesmen" : interview with Dizzy Gillespie, 1985-86
  • "How did Basie come by the name Count?" : interview with Dan Minor, 1981
  • "Human consciousness lives in the mythosphere" : interview with Greg Thomas, 1996
  • "Hear that train whistle harmonica!" : talk at St. John's University with Paul Devlin, 2003
  • "A real conservative? I'm not one. I'm an avant-garde person" : interview with Russell Neff, 1989
  • "The blues always come back" : liner notes to Revelations/Blues suite, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, 1978
  • Second lining, third liners ... and the fourth line : notes on a jazz tradition, 2003-2004
  • "Basie's a special guy" : interview with Billy Eckstine, 1983
  • "It's not bad being Huck" : interview with Janis Herbert and foreword to The world don't owe me nothing : the life and times of Delta bluesman "Honeyboy" Edwards, by David "Honeyboy" Edwards, 1997
  • Three omni-American artists : foreword to Mitchell & Ruff : an American profile in Jazz, by William Zinsser, 2000
  • "I know the world that these sounds come out of!" : interview with Paul Devlin, 2006
  • "Flexibility, the art of adapting, and the necessity of continuous creation" : a talk on jazz, delivered in Morocco, 1956 or 1958
  • "We really integrated Fifty-second Street" : interview with John Hammond, 1982
  • "No better example of the ungaudy" : biographical sketch of Count Basie, 2004
  • "It's a mistake to think of any art form in terms of progress" : interview with Susan Page, 1997
  • "There was no gap : educational gap, cultural gap, between music education and what Negroes were doing in music" : interview with Robert G. O'Meally, 1994
  • The achievement of Duke Ellington : a discussion with Loren Schoenberg and Stanley Crouch, 1989
  • Murray's final published nonfiction statement : Jazz : notes toward a definition, 2004
  • Afterword. The blues and jazz as aesthetic statement / Greg Thomas
  • Appendix A. Albert Murray's canon of jazz arrangements, 2001-2002
  • Appendix B. American patterns and variations on rhythm and tune : an Ellington-Strayhorn list, 1990s.

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