Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State ebook

by Dave Oliphant

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.

Dave Oliphant began the fascinating story of Texans and jazz in his acclaimed book Texan Jazz, published in 1996. Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State presents sixteen published and previously unpublished essays on Texans and jazz.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

Dave Oliphant is the undisputed authority on the history of Texas jazz.

Dave Oliphant is the undisputed authority on the history of Texas jazz. This book will be an excellent addition to the existing scholarship on the history of jazz in the Southwest. Gary Hartman, Director of the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University.

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Texas summer, Oliphant unintentionally undercuts the point of the book.

In Jazz Mavericks Of The Lone Star State, Dave Oliphant writes about the many great jazz musicians who were born in Texas. Perhaps part of the problem is that Jazz Mavericks is a collection of essays published elsewhere, and thus some may have made sense in the context in which they were first published. Written in prose as dry as a Texas summer, Oliphant unintentionally undercuts the point of the book.

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Like his previous book, 1996's Texan Jazz, these 16 essays, some previously unpublished . Dave Oliphant will be discussing Texas jazz, spinning discs of the same, and signing copies of Jazz Mavericks at BookPeople, Friday, Aug. 31, 7p. More Texas Platters.

Like his previous book, 1996's Texan Jazz, these 16 essays, some previously unpublished, examine musical aspects common to Texans while trumpeting the contributions of Lone Star jazz icons.

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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.