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1	The Seven League Boots more books like this by Albert Murray A young bass player from Alabama is hired to tour with a legendary jazz band from Harlem to Hollywood, retracing the routes of the Underground Railroad, the Great Migration and the Gold Rush, among others. With "Train Whistle Guitar" and "The Spyglass Tree" this book forms a trilogy about the maturation of a young black man in the first half of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	South to a Very Old Place more books like this by Albert Murray The Modern Library edition of the author's classic memoir of growing up in Alabama in the 1920s and 1930s. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Stomping the blues more books like this by Albert Murray The legendary study of the blues by one of America's premier writers and critics. see all copies from $2.54! new only from $7.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Train Whistle Guitar more books like this by Albert Murray The first in Murray’s trilogy about Scooter, an autobiographical character growing up in 1920s Alabama. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	From the Briarpatch File: On Context, Procedure, and American Identity more books like this by Albert Murray The 17 pieces collected here regard many aspects of African-American arts and letters, including the music of Duke Ellington and the literature of the Harlem Renaissance. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The Blue Devils of NADA: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement more books like this by Albert Murray To Albert Murray the blues is not about suffering but about transcendence through sheer style pinpointed in the work of such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Romare Bearden, Ernest Hemingway. Murray demolishes our stereotypes about art, race, and what it means to be human in an intelligent and whirlwind tour of American culture. see all copies from $3.48! new only from $11.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Magic Keys more books like this by Albert Murray Capturing the joyful rhythms of youth, this is the final volume in the adventures of Scooter--the hero of Albert Murray's extraordinary autobiographical novels "Train Whistle Guitar, The Spyglass Tree," and "The Seven League Boots." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Hero and the Blues more books like this by Albert Murray see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray more books like this by Ralph Waldo Ellison, Albert Murray, John Callahan (Editor) Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray met in the early 1940s and remained friends until Ellison died in 1994. For much of that time, they lived in separate cities, and so they became prolific letter-writers. This volume covers letters written between 1949 and 1960, the years during which Ellison's INVISIBLE MAN was published and Murray began writing his ... see all copies from $3.89! new only from $4.97! \| first editions
10	The Spyglass Tree more books like this by Albert Murray The second in Murray’s autobiographical trilogy, in which Scooter attends Tuskegee Institute and witnesses ever more violent permutations of racism. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture more books like this by Albert Murray see all copies from $2.95! first editions
12 view cover	Mitchell & Ruff: An American Profile in Jazz more books like this by William Knowlton Zinsser, Albert Murray (Foreword by) In this bio of acclaimed jazz duo Mitchell and Ruff, Zinsser, a colleague of Ruff's at Yale University, reveals what he witnessed when he toured with the pair all over the world to record their thoughts about music. As an avid listener, he learned much about the musicians' childhood memories, early inspirations, working habits, and creative ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.69! \| first editions \| SVS
13	The Spy Glass Tree more books like this by Albert Murray, Erroll McDonald (Editor) The second in Murray’s autobiographical trilogy, in which Scooter attends Tuskegee Institute and witnesses ever more violent permutations of racism. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Romare Bearden in black-and-white : photomontage projections, 1964 more books like this by Gail Gelburd, Thelma Golden, Albert Murray, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris see all copies from $9.50! new only from $69.90! \| first editions
15	Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie as Told to Albert Murray more books like this by Count Basie, Albert Murray Collaborating with the award-winning novelist and jazz critic Albert Murray, Count Basie details his life and career from his beginnings. He also shares colorful anecdotes about the musicians that he has played with. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
16 view cover	Conjugations and Reiterations: Poems more books like this by Albert Murray Murray brings his erudition as a critic to bear on this collection of his poems, which addresses African-American culture. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Conversations with Albert Murray more books like this by Roberta S Maguire (Editor), Albert Murray As a cultural critic, biographer, essayist, and novelist, Albert Murray has had a wide-ranging influence on American art in the decades since World War II. This book brings together 20 interviews conducted over the last 20 years, wherein Murray discusses those who influenced him--Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Louis Armstrong--and how they helped ... see all copies from $3.90! new only from $16.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	A Second Exodus more books like this by Murray Friedman (Editor), Albert D Chernin (Editor) A first-time chronicle of the US Soviet Jewry Movement. see all copies from $10.99! new only from $23.11! \| SVS
19 view cover	Good Morning Blues more books like this by Albert Murray, Count Basie Collaborating with the award-winning novelist and jazz critic Albert Murray, Count Basie details his life and career from his beginnings. He also shares colorful anecdotes about the musicians that he has played with. see all copies from $1.99!
20	The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy more books like this by Albert Murray see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21 view cover	The Omni-Americans: Black Experience and American Culture more books like this by Albert Murray "The Omni-Americans is a classic collection of wickedly incisive essays, commentaries, and reviews on politics, literature, and music. Provocative and compelling, Albert Murray debunks the ""so-called" see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.24! \| SVS
22	The Case Against Religion: A Psychotherapist's View & the Case Against Religiosity more books like this by Albert Ellis, Jon G. Murray (Designed by) see all copies from $25.00! new only from $35.69! \| first editions
23	The Omni-Americans by Albert L. Murray see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
24	Reflections on Logic, Politics & Reality: A Challenge to the Sacred Consensus of Contemporary American Thinking more books like this by Albert Murray Volume contains a serious down-to-earth discussion on the changing character of American life and its social, political, and educational institutions, from the point of view of the philosophy of Western Civilization which the author insists is based on the Hebrew-Greek culture. The determining factor in the survival of a civilized society, he ... see all copies from $46.75! first editions
25 view cover	Conversations with Albert Murray more books like this by Albert Murray, Roberta S. Maguire (Editor) As a cultural critic, biographer, essayist, and novelist, Albert Murray has had a wide-ranging and profound influence on American art in the decades since the Second World War. Artists as diverse as Walker Percy, Romare Bearden, and Wynton Marsalis have drawn from Murray and his ideas on jazz and the blues, modem consciousness, and the role of ... see all copies from $77.25! new only from $77.25!

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