Albert Murray (writer)
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Albert L. Murray (born May 12, 1916 in Nokomis, Mobile County, Alabama) is an African-American literary and jazz critic, novelist and biographer.
He attended the Tuskegee Institute and received a Bachelors degree in 1939. He later earned a M.A. from New York University in 1948. In 1943 he entered the U.S. Air Force, from which he retired as a major in 1962.
Murray began his writing career in earnest in 1962, after he retired from the military. His first book The Omni-Americans (1970) received critical acclaimed.
With Wynton Marsalis, Murray is the cofounder of the program and institution known as Jazz at Lincoln Center.
He has written several books:
- The Blue Devils of Nada, a collection of essays (1996),
- The Seven League Boots (1996),
- Train Whistle Guitar, novel (1974),
- South to a Very Old Place (1971),
- Stomping the Blues (1976), and
- The Spyglass Tree (1991).
He was co-author of Count Basie's autobiography Good Morning Blues (1985).
[edit] External links
- Pinsker, Sanford, "Albert Murray: the Black Intellectuals' Maverick Patriarch", Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1996
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