Conversations with Albert Murray

Download or read book Conversations with Albert Murray written by Albert Murray and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these conversations Murray discusses those who influenced him - Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington - and tells how they helped him develop a philosophy of art based on the blues as well as a new archetype of the American hero, the blues hero.