Murray talks music
Subtitle: Albert Murray on jazz and blues
By: Albert Murray ; edited by Paul Devlin ; foreword by Gary Giddins ; afterword by Greg Thomas
Contributors: Devlin, Paul, 1980- editor
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780816699551; 9780816698424
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Blues (Music); Interviews; Jazz; History and criticism; Jazz musicians
Other titles: Albert Murray on jazz and blues
Notes: "St. George and the blues" / by Gary Giddins: pages ix-xv; "Albert Murray : making words swing, on and off the page" / by Paul Devlin: pages xvii-xlvi.

Includes bibliographical references, discographical references, and index.
Table of contents: title: "Art is about elegant form" : interview with Wynton Marsalis, 1994; title: "Finding ourselves in the role of elder statesmen" : interview with Dizzy Gillespie, 1985-86; title: "How did Basie come by the name Count?" : interview with Dan Minor, 1981; title: "Human consciousness lives in the mythosphere" : interview with Greg Thomas, 1996; title: "Hear that train whistle harmonica!" : talk at St. John's University with Paul Devlin, 2003; title: "A real conservative? I'm not one. I'm an avant-garde person" : interview with Russell Neff, 1989; title: "The blues always come back" : liner notes to Revelations/Blues suite, Alvin Alley Dance Theater, 1978; title: Second lining, third liners... and the fourth line : notes on a jazz tradition, 2003-2004; title: "Basie's a special guy" : interview with Billy Eckstine, 1983; title: "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; title: Three omni-American artists : foreword to Mitchell & Ruff : an American profile in Jazz, by William Zinsser, 2000; title: "I know the world that these sounds come out of!" : interview with Paul Devlin, 2006; title: "Flexibility, the art of adapting, and the necessity of continuous creation" : a talk on jazz, delivered in Morocco, 1956 or 1958; title: "We really integrated Fifty-second Street" : interview with John Hammond, 1982; title: "No better example of the ungaudy" : biographical Sketch of Count Basie, 2004; title: "It's a mistake to think of any art form in terms of progress" : interview with Susan Page, 1997; title: "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; title: The achievement of Duke Ellington : a discussion with Loren Schoenberg and Stanley Crouch, 1989; title: Murray's final published nonfiction statement : Jazz : notes toward a definition, 2004; title: Afterword. The blues and jazz as aesthetic statement / Greg Thomas; title: Appendix A. Albert Murray's canon of jazz arrangements, 2001-2002; title: Appendix B. American patterns and variations on rhythm and tune : an Ellington-Strayhorn list, 1990s.