Stomping the Blues by Albert Murray

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Stomping the Blues by Albert Murray

The legendary study of the blues by one of America's premier writers and critics.. This study of the blues by one of Americas premier essayists and novelists will change old attitudes about a tradition that continues to feed the very heart of popular musica blues that dances, shakes, shimmies, and exchanges bad news for stomping, rollicking, pulse-quickening good times.

Albert Murray (1916-2013) wrote thirteen books, including influential works such as The Omni-Americans and South to a Very Old Place. Minnesota has published Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray and Jazz and Blues, a collection of his previously uncollected/unpublished music writings and interviews, Rifftide, an autobiography of drummer Jo Jones as told to Murray, and republished Murray's and Count Basie's Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie. Murray's non-fiction is available from the Library of America and his fiction and poetry will be as well in early 2018. He cofounded Jazz at Lincoln Center in 1987.


Paul Devlin is the editor of Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray and Jazz and Blues, and Rifftide: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones, as told to Albert Murray, a finalist for the Jazz Journalists Association's book award. He is the co-editor, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of the Library of America's volumes of Murray's work. He is Assistant Professor of English at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and is the book review editor of African American Review.

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ISBN 13 9780306803628
ISBN 10 0306803623
Title Stomping the Blues
Author Albert Murray
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Hachette Books
Year published 1989-08-22
Number of pages 272
Prizes Joint winner of ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award 1977
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.