Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State

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.

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 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 Notes Bibliography Index