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 Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State presents sixteen published and previously unpublished essays on Texans and jazz.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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... ragtime, the other musical tradition from which jazz drew its inspiration, had its first great composer in Scott Joplin (1868–1917) of Texarkana. Joplin's 1899 “Maple Leaf Rag” was a landmark of ragtime, and “The Entertainer,” made ...
... ragtime to the swing of Eddie Durham and Jack Teagarden, from the bebop and hard bop of Kenny Dorham and Red Garland, to the Third Stream of Jimmy Giuffre and the harmolodics of Ornette Coleman, America's world-class art form can truly ...
... ragtime, and boogie-woogie. Indeed, all of these musical forms were known and performed in the state in the nineteenth or the early twentieth century. Consequently, after leaving Texas, an impressive number of native musicians were able ...
... ragtime composers and best known as the creator in 1899 of “Maple Leaf Rag,” and with Hersal Thomas of Houston deemed a boogie- woogie prodigy from the early and mid-1920s. 1 The blues were likewise something of an indigenous product of ...
... ragtime bands and the jazz musicians who accompanied female blues singers), did not develop the contrast or harmonization of brass and reeds, did not emphasize improvisation as an essential feature of the form (although both blues and ...
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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 |