Ray Blue, the tenor saxophonist, whose big bold sound touched the sky reaching any listeners’ heart, died on May 21. He was 75.

Both Jonathan and Paul are graduates of the prestigious University of North Texas Jazz Studies program in Denton, TX and have been playing jazz standards for ... citing the Beatles, Oregon’s Ralph ...

Indeed a fascinating, not to say occasionally moving, narrative arc can be drawn from Wells’s The Invisible Man (1897) to Ralph Ellison’s ... A bit like improvised jazz. James Joyce is ...

In the symposium, Ralph Ellison remarked that “I just feel that we are called upon to do a big job, not because someone is going to give us a star on the report card, but because this is America ...

Ralph Ellison This refrain from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible ... Each time McQueen recounts the story, the screens play silent clips from The Jazz Singer, a 1927 film notorious for its blackface ...

I was able to co-produce a critically acclaimed evening of Ralph’s words, images, and the jazz he loved — called Jazz in the Key of Ellison — that went on the road. A soaring wall inside ...

That ties together with jazz for me, I think, because I can't think of jazz at all without thinking of the first pages of Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison ... Louis Armstrong playing and singing ...

Ralph Ellison preached the gospel of Satchmo. Jackie Robinson tapped his love of jazz and jazzmen to raise ... put in my contracts that I wouldn’t play no place I couldn’t stay.

It is possible to imagine the jazz musician Sonny Rollins’s life as a novel, pitched between realism and surrealism in the manner of Ralph Ellison ... “I like to play and let the crowd ...

Ralph Ellison called jazz an artistic counterpart to the American political system. Soloists can play anything they want as long as they stay within the tempo and the chord changes—just as ...

Ralph Amoussou used the works of his namesake to help build his role as Paul Kadjo in “Transatlantic,” a seven-part Netflix series premiering April 7. When we first meet Paul Kadjo (Amoussou ...

One American who attempted such a reconciliation was the novelist Ralph Ellison ... “The Little Man at Chehaw Station,” Ellison recalls a music teacher at Tuskegee who admonished him always to play ...