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Interchange – One Blues Invisible: Ralph Ellison’s Pledge

May 29, 2018 Comments Off on Interchange – One Blues Invisible: Ralph Ellison’s Pledge

Today we pledge allegiance to what Ralph Ellison called a sorrowful laughter for all, and we open with “Waitin’ for Benny” a jam session from 1941 featuring jazz and swing guitarist Charlie Christian, an artist who, like Ellison, discovered the New World of Jazz in Oklahoma City. In Ellison’s 1958 Saturday Review essay “The Charlie Christian Story,” he writes, “The …

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