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Ralph Ellison: Living With Music
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This compilation is based around the book
, and co-produced and annotated by that volume's editor,
. The idea is to assemble various pieces of music with some connection to
or his writings, with the specific threads -- a direct comment
might have made on a track, for instance, or a song that's referred to in one of his stories -- explained in
's notes. Those connections can sometimes be quite specific and, frankly, extremely tenuous at other times. For those not immersed in
's writings, it's still a pretty fair collection of
, usually on the soulful and bluesy sides, from the mid-'20s to the early '60s, albeit entirely
that happens to be administered by
. Certainly
's
and
(a 1939 track, not the same as
vibraphonist
's more famous and influential recording) are major
classics.
,
, and
are heard from two or three times apiece, and there are also quality selections from
(with
on vocals), and
on sax and
on piano). Getting a little off the
track, there's also
; getting considerably off the
track, there's
guitarist
The set finishes with the only commercially available recording of
's own voice,
an excerpt from a 1964 address at
. ~ Richie Unterberger