Jazz mavericks of the Lone Star State

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oliphant, Dave
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.