Jazz is certainly one of America's maximum presents to the humanities, and local Texas musicians have performed an incredible position within the improvement of jazz from its beginning in ragtime, blues, and boogie-woogie to its such a lot modern manifestation in loose jazz. Dave Oliphant begun the interesting tale of Texans and jazz in his acclaimed ebook Texan Jazz, released in 1996. carrying on with his riff in this fascinating musical subject, Oliphant uncovers during this new quantity extra of the prolific connections among Texas musicians and jazz.

Jazz Mavericks of the Lone superstar State offers 16 released and formerly unpublished essays on Texans and jazz. Oliphant celebrates the contributions of such very important figures as Eddie Durham, Kenny Dorham, Leo Wright, and Ornette Coleman. He additionally takes a fuller examine Western Swing via Milton Brown and his Musical tarts and a overview of Duncan McLean's Lone famous person Swing. furthermore, he strains the connection among British jazz feedback and Texas jazz and defends the acceptance of Texas folklorist Alan Lomax because the first biographer of mythical jazz pianist-composer Jelly Roll Morton. In different essays, Oliphant examines the hyperlinks among jazz and literature, together with fiction and poetry by means of Texas writers, and divulges the possible not likely connection among Texas and Wisconsin in jazz annals. all of the essays during this booklet underscore the real components performed by way of Texas musicians in jazz historical past and the importance of Texas to jazz, as additionally proven by way of Oliphant's studies of the Ken Burns PBS sequence on jazz and Alfred Appel Jr.'s Jazz Modernism.