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 Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State presents sixteen published and previously unpublished essays on Texans and jazz.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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... Texas jazz musicians also joined the ranks of smaller groups led by such stars as Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charles Mingus. But how musicians in outlying towns like Jefferson ...
... Jazz by the Boulevard Festival took place in September 2003 and featured the city's own Dewey Redman ; and in November , Corpus Christi hosted its forty - third annual Texas Jazz Festival , with hometown pianist - trombonist Joe ...
... jazz through his pianist sister , who commented to their parents that KD ... Jazz Festival , the first international gathering of its kind . Dorham's boyhood ... Texan composed " Dorham's Epitaph , " a lovely piece lasting only one minute ...
... Texans have played in jazz, whether their style has been identified as Texan or not. Red Garland first joined forces with Miles Davis in 1955, some five years after the trumpeter had worked his way from bebop into a cooler, more nuanced ...
... jazz soprano sax at its most touching . In " Jungle Critters " he shows off ... Jazz to Come . Through this album , Coleman turned the jazz world on its ear with ... Texan stamp . HOWELL BROTHERS MOLNSHINE DANCE ORCHESTRA PHOTO JORBANCOU ...
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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 |