Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star StateJazz 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 Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State presents sixteen published and previously unpublished essays on Texans and jazz.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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Clarence Hutchenrider , born June 13 , 1908 , led his own band at age fourteen
and in the late 1920s played at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas in the band of Jack
Gardner , who himself would later in 1939 serve as the pianist in Harry James ' s
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name for himself both as an altoist and a blues singer , principally through his hit
song “ Kidney Stew Blues , ” recorded in 1945 with his own band . Vinson ' s
group at the time included tenorist John Coltrane and Dallas pianist Red Garland
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In 1937 Herman ' s band included Houston - born alto saxophonist and arranger
Dean Kincaide , but this Texan did not solo in any of the performances of that
year and contributed more as an arranger than a soloist to the Wisconsin leader '
s ...
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JAZZ MAVERICKS OF THE LONE STAR STATE | 1 |
THE ROOTS OF TEXAN JAZZ | 9 |
BRITISH ACOLYTES OF JAZZ AND ITS TEXAS CONTINGENT | 61 |
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