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 Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State presents sixteen published and previously unpublished essays on Texans and jazz.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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... ) ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71496-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-292-71496-3 (alk. paper) 1. Jazz—Texas—History and criticism. I. Title. ML3508.7.T4O44 2007 781.6509764—dc22 2006034389 INDEX 231 BIBLIOGRAPHY 223 NOTES 187 16 SAN MARCOS IN.
Dave Oliphant. INDEX 231 BIBLIOGRAPHY 223 NOTES 187 16 SAN MARCOS IN JAZZ HISTORY 181 15 DISCOGRAPHIES AND TEXAN JAZZ 171 THE INVENTOR OF JAZZ REVISITED: Untangling the Legacy of Jelly Roll Morton and Alan Lomax 159 13 THE BIRTH OF ...
... jazz to come. These legendary places, names, lines from lyrics, and song and record titles are, for those who know the story of jazz ... history of jazz, the present gathering of articles, book-review essays, talks, and ruminations expands on ...
... jazz with its invigorating rhythms, tonal richness, and complex system of improvisation. Almost from the beginning of my jazz education, I was aware that Texans had been active at high levels in the music's history, including Beaumont's ...
Dave Oliphant. roles played by Texans in jazz history. Even after more than fifty years I find that I am far from ... history of the nation, and even the world. Although native pride may not have been a lesson that my teachers tried to ...
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9 | |
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 |