Editing Wardell Gray (section)

===In popular culture===

[[James Ellroy]]'s novel ''[[The Cold Six Thousand]]'' contains a reference to Gray's disappearance and death:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=yxn_lSxLvxAC&dq=wardell+gray+the+cold+six+thousand&pg=PA322 James Ellroy, ''The Cold Six Thousand''], Windmill Books, 2010, pp.&nbsp;271, 284 and 372.</ref> according to this, he was murdered by (fictional) racist conspirator Wayne Tedrow, Sr. for having an affair with his wife, Janice.

[[Bill Moody (author)|Bill Moody]]'s book ''Death of a Tenor Man'' tells the story of a contemporary investigation of Wardell's death by fictional detective/pianist Evan Horne.<ref>Bill Moody, ''Death of a Tenor Man'', Dark City Books, 2003.</ref>

[[Jack Kerouac]] explicitly references Wardell in his novel ''[[On the Road]]'':
"They ate voraciously as Neal, sandwich in hand, stood bowed and jumping before the big phonograph listening to a wild bop record I just bought called 'The Hunt', with Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray blowing their tops before a screaming audience that gave the record fantastic frenzied volume."<ref>Jack Kerouac, ''On the Road: The Original Scroll'', Penguin Books, 2007, p 215.</ref>