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	Murray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Murray River is a major river in Australia.
		The Murray River is a minor river on Stewart Island/Rakiura of New Zealand.
		Murray is also a brand owned by the Kellogg Company.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murray (185 words)

	7.30 Report - 03/07/2002: A report on the life of Albert Namatjira
		Albert Namatjira is Australia's most famous painter of watercolours, yet connoisseurs of his work say he's still under-appreciated by major art houses.
		MURRAY McLAUGHLIN: 79-year-old Mona Byrnes, a lifelong friend of Albert Namatjira, attended last night the launch in Alice Springs of a series of stamps to mark the centenary of Namatjira's birth.
		MURRAY McLAUGHLIN: To quell public protest and to spare Namatjira from the cells in Alice Springs, the Federal Government gazetted the reserve in central Australia as a jail and sent him there to serve his sentence.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2002/s597983.htm (904 words)

	Maguire SAMLA 2002 (printable)
		Murray, not surprisingly, has followed his own advice, and his three novels and one collection of poetry are saturated with references to the blues and jazz as well as to the figures he sees as most important in the jazz tradition-notably Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie.
		Murray himself suggests we might think about the sound and feel of his text in such terms by including in the novel several pointed references to swing and also subtle as well as overt references to Basie and Young.
		Murray is an ardent admirer of the idea and ideal of American democracy as stipulated in the nation's founding documents, an ideal that he acknowledges remains to be realized but toward which he believes American history continues to move.
	www.cwru.edu /affil/sce/Texts_2002/Maguireptr.html (4243 words)

	Extending the Range of Existenti
		Murray writes that “each short story and each novel is, that is to say, a dance-extension performance, such is that which the blues singer gives when rendering a ballad for an audience” (Hero, 22).
		Murray writes that “as for the blues, they affirm not only U.S. Negro life in all of its arbitrary complexities and not only life in America in all of its infinite confusions, they affirm life and humanity itself in the very process of confronting failures and existentialistic absurdities” (Omni, 147).
		Murray writes that the goal behind the character of Scooter is to “create an idealized American type, an image that is rich enough for readers to aspire to.” He does so by using his aesthetic of intertwining of jazz music and existentialism to suggest how Scooter can be the hero.
	webpages.acs.ttu.edu /kgarriso/existential_heroes.htm (4292 words)

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		The title of Murray's lecture was "Duke Ellington and the Defining of American Culture." Instead of speaking strictly on this topic, Murray chose to present a more informal talk focusing on the composition of American culture and the place of jazz within it.
		Murray referred to this as the "locomotive onomatopoeia," which he demonstrated at his lecture through Ellington's work, "Harlem Airshaft," a term that refers to the unique sound of Ellington's compositions.
		Murray's first work, The Omni Americans, was published in 1970 and consisted of a collection of essays that marked the beginning of his tireless study of American culture.
	people.colgate.edu /maroon/archivesf97/sep2697/balfour.html (1021 words)

	American Culture and Cosmos Murray
		Albert Murray is 80 years old and, despite health problems that require him to walk extremely slowly with the help of a four-footed metal cane, he is constantly on the road giving readings of his fiction.
		But of all the books Albert Murray has written, he's likely to be remembered most for his first one, a collection of essays called "The OmniAmericans." In it he attacked what he saw as some of the fundamental flaws in the sociology of fl people, what he called, in his memorable phrase...
		MURRAY: Bradley told "The New Yorker" that very early on, Murray was saying stuff that could get him killed, partly because when it came to unleashing his invective, Albert Murray was an equal opportunity critic.
	www.npr.org /news/national/1997/mar/970326.murray.html (2093 words)

	Albert Murray talks about blues, jazz, literature
		Albert Murray, novelist and literary, cultural and music critic, lectures to an audience of about 140 people in McGraw Hall on Oct. 7.
		Murray remained on campus for two days after his lecture, meeting with faculty and students in the Creative Writing Program and participating in a seminar on fl leadership taught by Robert L. Harris, assistant professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center.
		Murray, who was born in Nokomis, Ala., grew up in Mobile and was educated at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute, which he attended with his long-time friend and some-time adversary, novelist Ralph Ellison.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/96/10.17.96/Albert_Murray.html (736 words)

	The Bixography Discussion Group
		Murray has an ax to grind throughout, but he's very careful about it; he ridicules white musicians throughout the book, but he sticks in the knife, oh, so carefully.
		Murray sticks in a jab at Bix on page 50 (long footnote), where he complains about critics who slip in (apparently) unqualified white musicians like Bix in their discussions of the Blues.
		Murray may actually have somethng significant to say about the Blues, but his poor writing (his views of European influences on jazz are confusing doubletalk), his anti white bias, and most importantly, his lack of sourced materials, make it hard to figure out where he's coming from.
	www.network54.com /Forum/message?forumid=27140&messageid=981640515 (563 words)

	Commissioner's Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On January 23, 2004, Albert Murray was sworn in by Governor Sonny Perdue as Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice.
		Albert Murray successfully worked his way up through the ranks of youth services in Tennessee and was eventually tapped to start up the Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority.
		Albert Murray graduated cum laude with a Masters Degree in Education, specializing in Guidance and Counseling from Middle Tennessee State University and a Bachelors of Science Degree in English from Tennessee State University.
	www.djj.state.ga.us /Commissioner.htm (339 words)

	Cornell News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born and raised in Alabama, Murray studied English at the Tuskegee Institute, where he befriended the writer Ralph Ellison in a relationship that was pivotal for both writers.
		Murray went on to teach at Tuskegee and direct its theater; join the U.S. Air Force (he retired as a major in 1962); and study at New York University, the University of Michigan, Colgate and other universities.
		Murray's visit to Cornell is being jointly sponsored by the Africana Studies and Research Center, the Department of History, the Department of English's Creative Writing Program and the Cornell Jazz Ensembles.
	www.news.cornell.edu /general/Sept96/murray.jkg.html (493 words)

	Albert Ayler: His Life and Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Albert joined the group and travelled to Denmark, where he played with them during their engagement at the Montmarte, though unfortunately not on the night when a live album was recorded.
		Albert was apparently pleased with the new group, since, except for the planned replacement of Freedman with Charles Tyler, he kept the personnel the same for the next performance.
		Albert was never satisfied with any of his bassists after Peacock [137] and, in his music from here on, began to use strings in different ways, with more pre-arranged roles and composed parts, depending on which players he could get.
	www.math.ucdavis.edu /~mawillia/ayler.html (21474 words)

	Sunny Murray Interview
		Albert was basically a soul sax player, a RandB sax player, and he'd written some material based on Swedish tunes and folk music he'd heard while he was in France – these are the tunes we know today, “Ghosts”, “Spirits” –
		We asked him [if Albert could sit in] and he said “Definitely not”, but Jimmy and I said to Albert “Pay him no mind, go get your horn...” There was so much love in the band that we knew we could play jokes on each other.
		They liked Albert – he hadn't played that many places but he had a good reputation, nice coloured guy, pretty, bit of a playboy – it was a great evening, but afterwards Cecil went in the back and kept quiet.
	www.paristransatlantic.com /magazine/interviews/murray.html (9764 words)

	Murray: Bugs Brother (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Murray takes that at face value and (perhaps) in the person of Malcolm X, finds much to be dismissed.
		Murray speaks of the constitution, declaration and bill of rights, the emancipation proclamation and of the Gettysburg address as literary evidence of a true evolution of thought which enabled Africans here and people everywhere to reconsider their identity and possibilities in society.
		It is the artists/writer's responsibility, according to Murray to infuse with particulars and detail with idiomatic style the concepts which bring forth connotations of that great progress in thought.
	www.mdcbowen.org /p1/fpp/bugs.html (1210 words)

	African American Review: Conversations with Albert Murray. - Review - book review
		Murray was born in Nokomis, Alabama, and raised on the outskirts of Mobile in a little place called Magazine Point.
		Murray's resolution manifests itself in astute analyses of the Black Experience--namely, The Omni Americans (1970) and South to a Very Old Place (1971)--as well as in the fictional trilogy comprised of Train Whistle Guitar (1974), The Spyglass Tree (1991), and The Seven League Boots (1996).
		Albert Murray started late as a writer--he was 54 years old and had retired from the Air Force before he published his first book.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2838/is_3_34/ai_67413427 (625 words)

	Albert Murray
		Murray was born in Magazine Point, Alabama in 1916.
		Jazz and Existentialism — Murray says that “what a case of the blues represents is chaos, entropy, futility, depression, defeat, contention--all of that.
		Question: Murray suggests that “art is entropy,” and that furthermore, both the blues and his novels are rooted in entropy.
	webpages.acs.ttu.edu /kgarriso/albert_murray.htm (509 words)

	Blue Notes
		At the age of 89, Albert Murray -- essayist, novelist, literary and social critic, raconteur and highly influential adviser of Jazz at Lincoln Center -- is sometimes regarded as the eminence grise of African American arts and letters.
		Born in Nokomis, Ala., in 1916, Murray grew up in Mobile and was educated at the Tuskegee Institute, where he first met Ralph Ellison, then an upperclassman, who went on to win lasting fame with the publication of Invisible Man.
		Considering Murray's capacity for mining his past, I suspect that the saga will continue as long as Murray's capacity for recall.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/02/AR2005060201528.html (688 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Albert Murray
		Albert Murray was born in Nokomis, Alabama, in 1916.
		Wide ranging and informed by his singular intelligence and sensibility, these poems are extraordinary for their keen folk wisdom and striking lyricism, partaking of the idioms of blues and jazz.
		&#8220;Murray’s perceptions are firmly based in the blues idiom, and it is fl music no less than literary criticism and historical analysis that gives his work its authenticity, its emotional vigor, and its tenacious hold on the intellect.” —Toni Morrison
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/murray (345 words)

	Essay collection offers insight into author’s beliefs
		With the slightest prompting, Murray launches into even finer riffs that attack racism, sing the praises of Thomas Mann and André Malraux, yet manage to incorporate the details and culture of his upbringing in the deep South.
		Murray’s ability to straddle the universal and the particular has always been his strongest asset as a writer, and he brings this quality to full bear in "Conjugations and Reiterations," his first book of poetry.
		Murray is an excellent mimic, and he can transpose the sounds of music onto the page like no other poet.
	www.showmenews.com /2002/Jan/20020106Ovat008.asp (1029 words)

	University of Alabama News
		Albert Murray is one of the state's great gifts to the world, and we want to honor him for his contributions not only to jazz and African-American letters, but also to the art of writing itself.
		Albert Murray, is a novelist, social critic and one of America's leaders in jazz studies and criticism.
		The poem, along with selected interviews, is also featured in "Conversations with Albert Murray." He appeared recently on television in the PBS series "Jazz," produced by Ken Burns, which aired in January 2001.
	www.ua.edu /advancement/ur/releases/feb01/cason022201.htm (1396 words)

	BookPage Review: The Blue Devils of Nada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Albert Murray, an Alabama native, writes of the countless nuances, colors, and rhythms of fl Southern life as very few contemporary American authors can.
		With the release of two new books in the Murray canon, The Seven League Boots and The Blue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement, the author proves to be a double threat as a superb novelist and perceptive cultural observer.
		Murray's The Blue Devils of Nada builds like a restless jazz riff on the aesthetic framework of his groundbreaking examination of the blues, Stomping the Blues.
	www.bookpage.com /9603bp/nonfiction/bluedevilsofnada.html (532 words)

	The Council
		Albert Murray was born in 1916 in the tiny south Alabama spot in the road, Nokomis.
		Murray has been O'Connor Professor of Literature at Colgate University, visiting professor of literature at the University of Massachusetts, writer-in-residence at Emory University, and Paul Anthony Brick lecturer at the University of Missouri.
		Murray said, " a Bearden works on the beholder not only as a work of art, but as something even deeper; a totemistic device and talisman for keeping the blues away." He could just as easily been describing his own work.
	www.arts.state.al.us /council/council-awards-2003.htm (759 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Stomping the Blues (Da Capo Paperback) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Murray's riffs are connected by periodic restated themes, one of which is that Blues music is not essentially melancholy or depressing at all.
		Murray is very good at listening with the context of the artist in mind, and he does a good job of discrediting some of the abstract artistic standards some critics have applied to what was in many ways an African American folk expression.
		murray is often, and accurately, referred to as the intellectual godfather of the recent neotraditional movement in jazz.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306803623?v=glance (2539 words)

	SALON Reviews: The Unsquarest Person Around, page 2
		No doubt Murray's ancestors are grinning ear-to-ear, but his descendants -- his intellectual ones -- should be just as grateful.
		And by his refusal to don ideological blinders, Murray has steered clear of quick fixes and canned wisdom, shifting the very ground upon which contemporary polemicists like Crouch, West and Carter fight their battles (not to mention such extraliterary acolytes as Wynton Marsalis).
		The image would probably please Murray, who has spent his career surveying our culture from the highest possible ground, and reporting what he has seen with cheerful, unflinching candor.
	www.salon.com /09/reviews/murray2.html (616 words)

	Albert Murray
		A critic, novelist, and biographer, Murray was born in Nokomis, Alabama in 1916.
		Murray examines Freud and turns the spotlight on William Faulkner, his writings.
		Murray's coming-of-age story set in 1920s Alabama is the first in a trilogy of novels that includes The Spyglass Tree and The Seven League Boots
	authors.aalbc.com /albert_murray.htm (347 words)

	Jazz \| All About Jazz
		That Marsalis should say that blues as defined by Murray is an essential element of jazz is equivalent to saying that to be a jazz musican one must adopt Murray's philosophy to some extent.
		This is because Murray's view of the world is that it is chaos.
		Murray's view is "you can push [the blue devils] back, you can hold them at bay." But: "In the end, of course, it is always raw nature, the unconscious and the irresponsible, inexorable earth in all its natural chaos which abides...
	www.allaboutjazz.com /articles/arti1200_16.htm (3383 words)

	Albert Murray, prominent African-American author and critic, speaks Oct. 12
		Among Murray's intellectual offspring are Stanley Crouch, Cornel West and Stephen Carter, who have helped shift national debate away from the polarization of fl and white.
		A key to Murray's understanding of the American aesthetic stance is the blues, a form of cultural expression that combines both European and African influences and is the common inheritance of all Americans -- a archetypal bridge that forever links Louis Armstrong and Ernest Hemingway.
		Murray wrote, "Beneath the idiomatic surface of your old down-home stomping ground, with all of the ever-so-evocative local color you work so hard to get just right, is the common ground of mankind in general."
	www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/1999/october/1001murray.html (356 words)

	Conversations with Albert Murray
		As a cultural critic, biographer, essayist, and novelist, Albert Murray has had a wide-ranging and profound influence on American art in the decades since the Second World War.
		Yet this is the first book devoted to Murray himself, and fittingly it is based on the kind of conversations that have proven indispensable to his friends in the arts.
		It brings together twenty interviews with Murray conducted over the last twenty-four years, beginning with an interview that took place shortly after his second book, South to a Very Old Place, was published, and ending with a previously unpublished interview with the editor.
	www.upress.state.ms.us /books/c/conv_albert_murray.html (374 words)

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