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He saw music as a key to the universality of experience and recognized the influence and impact on his own work of everything from Beethoven to Bessie Smith. By examining the achievements of many jazz and blues musicians in the context of the Western canon, he broadened the listening audience for these performers, and ultimately contributed to their stature as artists of real and lasting significance. In 2006, Todd Weeks was given exclusive access to Ralph Ellison's apartment in Manhattan with the express purpose of finding a home for his record collection. Based on its contents, the collection appears to have been amassed between the earliest 1930s and the late 1980s. There were many of the expected items there; the music that Ellison wrote about so eloquently—Duke Ellington, Count Basie; Mahalia Jackson and Cante Flamenco. But there were also many surprises: a full and varied range of 17th-20th century classical; pop items; spoken word and much more. 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