Description:
This compilation is based around the book Living With Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings, and co produced and annotated by that volume's editor, Robert G. O'Meally. The idea is to assemble various pieces of music with some connection to Ellison or his writings, with the specific threads a direct comment Ellison might have made on a track, for instance, or a song that's referred to in one of his stories explained in O'Meally's notes. |
 (What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue (a)
Potato Head Blues (b)
Work House Blues (c)
East St. Louis Toodle-Oo (d)
Black And Tan Fantasy (d)
Moten Swing (e)
Oh, Lady Be Good! (f)
All Of Me (g)
Sugar Plum (h)
Flying Home (i)
Jump For Joy (j)
Harvard Blues (k)
Down Hearted Blues (k)
The Holy Babe (l)
La Farruca (m)
Up And Down, Up And Down (I Will Lead Them Up And Down) (n) |
Artists: a- Louis Armstrong and His Orch; b- Armstrong and His Hot Seven; c- Bessie Smith; d- Duke Ellington and His Washingtonians; e- Count Basie & His Orch; f- Jones-Smith, Inc.; g- Billie Holiday, Acc. by Eddie Heywood & His Orch; h- Teddy Wilson and His All-Stars; i- The Benny Goodman Sextet; j- Hot Lips Page; k- Jimmy Rushing and His Orch; l- Mahalia Jackson; m- Vicente Escudero; n- Duke Ellington and His Orch |
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