Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star StateUniversity of Texas Press, 2009 M12 3 - 256 páginas Jazz is one of America's greatest gifts to the arts, and native Texas musicians have played a major role in the development of jazz from its birth in ragtime, blues, and boogie-woogie to its most contemporary manifestation in free jazz. Dave Oliphant began the fascinating story of Texans and jazz in his acclaimed book Texan Jazz, published in 1996. Continuing his riff on this intriguing musical theme, Oliphant uncovers in this new volume more of the prolific connections between Texas musicians and jazz. Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State presents sixteen published and previously unpublished essays on Texans and jazz. Oliphant celebrates the contributions of such vital figures as Eddie Durham, Kenny Dorham, Leo Wright, and Ornette Coleman. He also takes a fuller look at Western Swing through Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies and a review of Duncan McLean's Lone Star Swing. In addition, he traces the relationship between British jazz criticism and Texas jazz and defends the reputation of Texas folklorist Alan Lomax as the first biographer of legendary jazz pianist-composer Jelly Roll Morton. In other essays, Oliphant examines the links between jazz and literature, including fiction and poetry by Texas writers, and reveals the seemingly unlikely connection between Texas and Wisconsin in jazz annals. All the essays in this book underscore the important parts played by Texas musicians in jazz history and the significance of Texas to jazz, as also demonstrated by Oliphant's reviews of the Ken Burns PBS series on jazz and Alfred Appel Jr.'s Jazz Modernism. |
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... early periods of the music, especially the work of Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington from the 1920s and 1930s. In 1955 I heard recordings by the great Charlie Parker, who, without my being aware of the fact, would die during that ...
... early 1960s I would encounter the music of other Texas jazzmen, among them Vernon's Jack Teagarden and Fort Worth's Ornette Coleman. It was this early exposure to Texans in jazz that eventually led me to write Texan Jazz. But the ...
... early instruction in the history of jazz. One professional consequence of my introduction to jazz over a half- century ago is the great satisfaction that I now take in sharing my enthusiasm for this music with new generations of ...
... early on in Texas soil. The blues, which forms one source for jazz, had perhaps its earliest exponents in Texas, including Blind Lemon Jefferson (ca. 1880–ca. 1930) of Couchman, referred to as the King of the Country Blues. Likewise ...
... early 1930s, Durham was on Moten's milestone recording of 1932 and helped create the riff style that became a fixture of the swing era. A composer-arranger who had taken correspondence courses in music theory while a boy in San Marcos ...
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The Texas Jazz Connections | 33 |
Kenny Dorham and Leo Wright | 45 |
5 BRITISH ACOLYTES OF JAZZ AND ITS TEXAS CONTINGENT | 61 |
6 THE WISCONSINTEXAS JAZZ NEXUS | 81 |
7 JAZZ IN LITERATURE | 99 |
8 THE ALCHEMY OF JAZZ | 113 |
11 A TEXAS TAKE ON KEN BURNSS JAZZ | 135 |
12 SWINGING THROUGH TEXAS ON A SCOTTISH AIR | 143 |
13 THE BIRTH OF WESTERN SWING | 149 |
Untangling the Legacy of Jelly Roll Morton and Alan Lomax | 159 |
15 DISCOGRAPHIES AND TEXAN JAZZ | 171 |
16 SAN MARCOS IN JAZZ HISTORY | 181 |
NOTES | 187 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 223 |
9 ORNETTE COLEMANS HARMOLODIC LIFE | 121 |
10 A JAZZ MASTERS DIAMOND JUBILEE | 129 |
INDEX | 231 |