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 Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State presents sixteen published and previously unpublished essays on Texans and jazz.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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Innumerable other Texans also made important contributions to the swing and
bebop movements . To name but a few : Clarence Hutchenrider of Waco , who ,
during his years with the Casa Loma Orchestra from 1931 to 1943 , was “ a
superb ...
In revealing that Jake Trussell had contributed a record review to a British jazz
magazine , Godbolt demonstrated that ... Texan Jazz , would not have been so
comprehensive in its discussion of the Texas contribution to jazz and would not
have ...
Both Giuffre and Babasin can be heard on the recording from the May 12 live
performance , with the former contributing to the sax section ' s reading of the
Parker solo as transcribed by Rogers . ” Babasin not only recorded with Parker in
1952 ...
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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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