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 Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State presents sixteen published and previously unpublished essays on Texans and jazz.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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... trombonist Jack Teagarden, writer Donald Barthelme, and painter Robert Rauschenberg. The aesthetic, cultural, and historical reach of jazz has truly been global in its impact and appeal, and this fact makes the inclusion of jazz studies ...
... trombonist Joe Gallardo among the lineup of locally born talent . Other cities like Houston and Denton have honored ... trombone in the brass sections of the Moten , Lunceford , and Basie bands as well as amplified guitar , the instru ...
... trombonist, one who would revolutionize the playing of this rather awkward slide instrument, was Jack Teagarden ... trombone virtuosity and his delightful vocal treatment of the witty lyrics, which include such lines as “I'm a ridin ...
... trombone , Jay on clar- inet , Bill on drums , Hilton on piano , and Tom ( the youngest at sixteen ) on cornet . Used by permission of Pat Howell Crutsinger . heard in most every part of the state. But none 10 Jazz Mavericks of the Lone ...
... Trombonist Jack Teagarden , born in 1905 , left his Vernon home in 1921 at age sixteen and joined his uncle's band in San Angelo . In that same year Teagarden moved on to San Antonio , where he played with Cotton Bailey's band at the ...
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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 |