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 Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State presents sixteen published and previously unpublished essays on Texans and jazz.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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... piano truly capturing the blues feeling . Stockard's banjo powers the opening of " Oh ! You Pretty Woman , " where Wanna Coffman on string bass backs up Brower's theme statement , while Calhoun's piano stomps and ripples behind Brown's ...
... piano break on " Am I Blue ? " is certainly one of his strongest efforts . Brower shows his versatility on “ I'll String Along with You " when he effectively delivers the melody with a mute and tremo- lo . He also plays the theme on ...
... piano sound as much like a band as possible " ( p . 176 ) . 28. Ibid . , p . 290 . 29. Ibid . , p . 105. A similar claim reads : " Jelly . . . could back up everything he said by what he could do " ( p . 220 ) . 30. Reich and Gaines ...
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JAZZ MAVERICKS OF THE LONE STAR STATE | 1 |
THE ROOTS OF TEXAN JAZZ | 9 |
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