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While Texas is not generally thought of with New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, Kansas City, and Chicago as a hotbed of jazz, Oliphant (editor of the Library Chronicle, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Ctr., Univ. of Texas, Austin) shows how many who found fame in those spots got their start in the Lone Star State. Artists as diverse as Scott Joplin, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Jack Teagarden, and Ornette Coleman all started out in Texas. From its origins in Joplin's ragtime piano through Jefferson's country blues to Coleman's hard bop, Oliphant details the development of this most American of musical genres. Meticulously researched and footnoted, this book is not only a definitive history of Texas jazz but a fine overview of the style as a whole. For comprehensive music collections and Southwestern history collections.?Dan Bogey, Clearfield Cty. P.L. Federation, Curwensville, Pa.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Texas musicians and jazz share a history that goes all the way back to the origins of jazz in ragtime, blues, and boogie-woogie. Texans have left their mark on all of jazz's major movements, including hot jazz, swing, bebop, the birth of the cool, hard bop, and free jazz. Yet these musicians are seldom identified as Texans because their careers often took them to the leading jazz centers in New Orleans, Chicago, New York, Kansas City, and Los Angeles. In Texan Jazz, Dave Oliphant reclaims these musicians for Texas and explores the vibrant musical culture that brought them forth. Working through the major movements of jazz, he 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. The great strength of Texan Jazz is its record of the contributions to jazz made by African-American Texans. The first major book on this topic ever published, it will be fascinating reading for everyone who loves jazz.
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