Texan jazz
Dave Oliphant (Author)
"... Describes the lives, careers, and recordings of such musicians as Scott Joplin, Hersal Thomas, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sippie Wallace, Jack Teagarden, Buster Smith, Hot Lips Page, Eddie Durham, Herschel Evans, Charlie Christian, Red Garland, Kenny Dorham, Jimmy Giuffre, Ornette Coleman, John Carter, and many others"--Page 4 of cover
Print Book, English, 1996
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University of Texas Press, Austin, 1996
Informational works
ix, 481 pages : illustrations, portraits, music ; 25 cm
9780292760455, 9780292760448, 0292760450, 0292760442
32627350
Part 1. Beginnings in East Texas. Ragtime ; Country Blues ; Classic Blues ; Boogie-Woogie
Part 2. Going to Kansas City : The Bennie Moten Band, 1921-1927 ; The Blue Devils, 1925-1934 ; Bennie Moten, 1929-1935 ; The Count Basie Orchestra, 1935-1963 ; Jones-Smith, Inc., and the Kansas City Five and Six ; The Jay McShann Orchestra, 1938-1942
Part 3. Going to New York and Chicago : A trombone trio ; By way of Kaycee ; Out of Big D ; With BG ; Out of Houston ; The rhythm section ; From BeBop to hard Bop ; The Mingus dynasty
Part 4. Going to Los Angeles : Out of Denton ; The cowtown vanguard ; Africa and back