Living with Music
Subtitle: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings (Modern Library Classics)
Contributors: Robert O'Meally (Editor)
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: May 14, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780375760235
First sentence: This piece exemplifies how Ellison used his masterful storytelling gifts in his nonfiction.
Description: "Before Ralph Ellison became one of America's greatest writers, he was a musician and a student of jazz. The author of Invisible Man wrote widely and brilliantly on his favorite music for more than fifty years, immersing himself in the lives and works of America's musicians, some of whom were his close friends. Ellison is, in fact, perhaps the most important jazz analyst we have. In Living with Music, celebrated jazz authority Robert G.

O'Meally has collected the very best of Ellison's writings on this subject - each selection vibrant, insightful, and bursting with Ellison's love of the music - in this unique and original anthology."--BOOK JACKET.