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Murray Talks Musicbrings together, for the first time, many of Albert Murray's finest interviewsand essays on music-most never before published-as well as rare liner notes andprefaces. A celebrated educator and raconteur, and cofounder of Jazz at LincolnCenter, Murray engages with a variety of scholars and journalists while makinginsightful connections among music, literature, and other art forms-all withample humor and from unforeseen angles.

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Murray Talks Music is an excellent introduction to the man s considerable musical erudition and prolific output. It is a well-edited collection of many of Murray s finest interviews and essays on music and musicians, and on dancers, artists, and social critics, with many articles and interviews published here for the first time. New York Journal of Books A compelling and comprehensive work, which will no doubt make Murrayites of us all. DownBeat

Like Barthes and Bazin, Murray is a truly original thinker . . . Murray Talks Music is irresistibly stimulating. The New Yorker The name Albert Murray was never household familiar. Yet his complex, mind-opening analysis of art and life remains as timely as ever probably more so. Devlin s book is both a public service and a testament to how Murray could impress and inspire those who came in contact with him. The Nation Insightful. New York Times Murray Talks Music bears indelible witness to the writer s role in elevating both jazz itself and the scholarship surrounding the music. JazzTimes Murray is rare touchstone writer for jazz. Indeed, there s an argument that the later career of Wynton Marsalis and the entire edifice of Jazz at Lincoln Center is founded on Murray s work. This is the only case of a major jazz musician treating the work of a major jazz writer with such reverence. Ethan Iverson, DO THE M@TH A compelling and comprehensive work, which will no doubt make Murrayites of us all. DownBeat Before Murray Talks Music, there was little in print of Albert Murray as spontaneous orator. This new collection corrects that problem and shows how brilliant he could be even when he didn t have time to polish his prose. The Arts Fuse

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Albert Murray (19162013), author of thirteen books including Stomping the Blues, was a renowned jazz historian, novelist, and social and cultural theorist. He cofounded Jazz at Lincoln Center in 1987. Paul Devlin teaches at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and at St. John's University. He earned his PhD in English at Stony Brook University in 2014. He is the editor of Rifftide: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones, as told to Albert Murray (Minnesota), a finalist for the Jazz Journalists Association's book award in 2012. Gary Giddins is one of the world's foremost jazz critics. His books include Visions of Jazz, Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker (Minnesota), Satchmo, Weather Bird, Natural Selection, Jazz, and Warning Shadows. Greg Thomasis an award-winning jazz writer, editor, educator, and broadcast journalist. His work on jazz has been published in the Village Voice, The Root, All About Jazz, Salon, The Guardian, American Legacy, and the New York Daily News, for which he was the jazz columnist.

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