CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. TUNING UP WITH A FEW INTRODUCTORY NOTES vii
4. 1 JAZZ MAVERICKS OF THE LONE STAR STATE 1
5. 2 THE ROOTS OF TEXAN JAZZ 9
6. 3 FROM BEBOP TO HARD BOP AND BEYOND: The Texas Jazz Connections 33
7. 4 TEXAS BEBOP MESSENGERS TO THE WORLD: Kenny Dorham and Leo Wright 45
8. 5 BRITISH ACOLYTES OF JAZZ AND ITS TEXAS CONTINGENT 61
9. 6 THE WISCONSIN-TEXAS JAZZ NEXUS 81
10. 7 JAZZ IN LITERATURE 99
11. 8 THE ALCHEMY OF JAZZ 113
12. 9 ORNETTE COLEMAN’S HARMOLODIC LIFE 121
13. 10 A JAZZ MASTER’S DIAMOND JUBILEE 129
14. 11 A TEXAS TAKE ON KEN BURNS’S JAZZ 135
15. 12 SWINGING THROUGH TEXAS ON A SCOTTISH AIR 143
16. 13 THE BIRTH OF WESTERN SWING 149
17. 14 THE INVENTOR OF JAZZ REVISITED: Untangling the Legacy of Jelly Roll Morton and Alan Lomax 159
18. 15 DISCOGRAPHIES AND TEXAN JAZZ 171
19. 16 SAN MARCOS IN JAZZ HISTORY 181
20. NOTES 187
21. BIBLIOGRAPHY 223
22. INDEX 231