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The Musical World of Ralph Ellison - Charlie Christian
June 19, 2012

Ralph Ellison loved music deeply, and even considered a career as a trumpeter/composer before deciding on literature. His thoughts about jazz and it's place in American culture were innovative and remain essential ingredients in any serious understanding of where we are as a country and how we got here. We will list to music that amplifies Ellison's prose about these formative influences.

Jazz guitar pioneer Charlie Christian grew up in the same neighborhood as Ellison in Oklahoma City, and his portrait of those years is the only in-depth witnessing we have of Christian's genesis.

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