Oliphant, Dave.

Jazz mavericks of the Lone Star State [electronic resource] / Dave Oliphant. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007. - xi, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-229) and index.

Tuning up with a few introductory notes -- Jazz mavericks of the Lone Star State -- The roots of Texan jazz -- From bebop to hard bop and beyond : the Texas jazz connections -- Texas bebop messengers to the world : Kenny Dorham and Leo Wright -- British acolytes of jazz and its Texas contingent -- The Wisconsin-Texas jazz nexus -- Jazz in literature -- The alchemy of jazz -- Ornette Coleman's harmolodic life -- A jazz master's diamond jubilee -- A Texas take on Ken Burns's Jazz -- Swinging through Texas on a Scottish air -- The birth of western swing -- The inventor of jazz revisited : untangling the legacy of Jelly Roll Morton and Alan Lomax -- Discographies and Texan jazz -- San Marcos in jazz history.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2009.
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