Porter's groundbreaking study addresses Ellison's jazz background, including his essays and comments about jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Parker. Porter further examines the influences of Ellington and Armstrong as sources of the writer's personal and artistic inspiration and highlights the significance of Ellison's camaraderie with two African American friends and fellow jazz fans -- the writer Albert Murray and the painter…
Author: Horace A. Porter · Original publisher: University of Iowa Press (Iowa City, 2001)
Tier 3 — Partial text + link. No text is hosted on Gary NOI. Read free: https://archive.org/details/jazzcountryralph00port (Internet Archive lending copy — borrowable; IA item ID as recorded in Tranche B1: jazzcountryralph00port; no hosting rights).
