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Cowboy Bebop: Ralph Ellison’s Strange Jazz Geography

ByFrank Strong September 11, 2016

Reading The Blue Devils of Nada, Albert Murray’s 1996 collection of essays on jazz, the blues, and American expression, I penciled four question marks next one line.

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Ornette Coleman and the Color of Fort Worth

ByFrank Strong February 11, 2016

One night in the summer before I left for college, some friends and I piled into a car outside a coffee house in Fort Worth’s museum district. I don’t remember how we ended up on the other side of downtown, in an east Fort Worth neighborhood that I had never seen before. Fort Worth was…

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Cowboy Bebop: Ralph Ellison’s Strange Jazz Geography

Ornette Coleman and the Color of Fort Worth

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