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β€œIn those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.” 
― Ralph Ellison, Living with Music

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem celebrates the centennial of writer Ralph Ellison and is honored to showcase his record collection.

View Ellison's Record Collection

Ralph Ellison Centennial Events at the Jazz Museum in Harlem

Trading Twelves: 
The Ralph Ellison-Albert Murray Continuum
Link to Past Event Profile


Shadow and Act: 
The Friends of Ralph Ellison with Stanley Crouch and Robert G. O'Meally  Link to Past Event Profile


Videos on Ralph Ellison

Biographer Arnold Rampersand on Ellison


Ellison on Ellison





Ellison's Influence on Writers



Ralph Ellison Foundation