Trading twelves
Subtitle: the selected letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray
By: edited by Albert Murray and John F. Calhoun ; introduction by John F. Callahan ; preface by Albert Murray.
Contributors: Murray, Albert.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Ellison, Ralph -- Correspondence.; Murray, Albert -- Correspondence.; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.; Critics -- United States -- Correspondence.; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Genres: Correspondence.
Description: "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, 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Tuskeegee and New York, 1950-1955; title: Rome, Casablanca, and New York, 1955-1958; title: Los Angeles and New York, 1958-1960.