Available April 2007

JAZZ MAVERICKS OF THE

LONE STAR STATE

By Dave Oliphant

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

and articles provide the most well-researched and well-written discussions of Texas

jazz history available. . . . 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

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 prolifi c

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previously unpublished essays on Texans and jazz.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 fi gures 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 fi rst biographer of legendary jazz pianist-composer

Jelly Roll Morton. In other essays, Oliphant examines the links between jazz

and literature, including fi ction 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 signifi cance 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.

DAVE OLIPHANT has been an enthusiastic student of jazz for fifty

years. He has published two previous books, Texan Jazz and The Early Swing

Era, 1930 to 1941, and numerous articles on jazz. Oliphant lives in Austin,

where he has taught a course on jazz and literature at the University of Texas

at Austin.

6 x 9 in., 256 pp., 25 b&w photos

ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71496-0

ISBN-10: 0-292-71496-3, $22.95, paperback

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