Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star StateUniversity of Texas Press, 2007 - 242 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 Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State presents sixteen published and previously unpublished essays on Texans and jazz.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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... 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 first big band ...
... born jazz musician was Teddy Wilson , star of the Benny Goodman Trio and Quartet . Like Oscar Moore , Wilson , born in Austin on November 24 , 1912 , left Texas at an early age , although in Wilson's case he seemed attracted throughout ...
... born in Fort Worth on September 24 , 1939 , Coleman , Cowtown drummer Charles Moffett ( born September 11 , 1929 ) , and Carter would practice together in " an upstairs joint " in Fort Worth where they would “ work hard on [ their ] bop ...
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