The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the birth of Albert Murray (1916 2013)
, who in thirteen books was by turns a lyrical novelist, a keen and iconoclastic
social critic, and a formidable interpreter of jazz and blues. Not only did his
prizewinning study "Stomping the Blues" (1976) influence musicians far and wide
, it was also a foundational text for Jazz at Lincoln Center, which he cofounded
with Wynton Marsalis and others in 1987. "Murray Talks Music" brings together,
for the first time, many of Murray s finest interviews and essays on music most
never before published as well as rare liner notes and prefaces.
