The music at the end this interview is “I’m an Old Cow Hand” composed by Johnny Mercer and recorded by Fairfield,Texas-born (1924) Kenny Durham on January 10, 1960. For a unique “discography” of Durham’s work, see Oliphant’s biography-poem KD: A Jazz Biography
A documentary short about Native Texas Poet Dave Oliphant. This documentary was filmed, edited, produced and directed by Kanya Lyons in 2018.
Oliphant was born in Fort Worth in 1939. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from Lamar University and the University of Texas, respectively, and his Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University. His primary reading and writing interest has always been poetry, but he has also written four books on jazz (primarily by Texas musicians).
He has translated poetry from Spanish and was a winner of the Texas Institute of Letters book translation award in 2011. In addition to fourteen collections of his own poetry, among them The Pilgrimage: Selected Poems 1962-2012, he has edited three anthologies of Texas poetry and one of Chilean poetry. For forty years he contributed essays on and reviews of Texas poetry to various state literary magazines, and 55 of those pieces were collected in 2015 in his Generations of Texas Poets.
He retired from the University of Texas at Austin after serving for 30 years in various capacities, from assistant professor to editor of a scholarly journal, senior lecturer, and coordinator of the Freshman Seminars Program. He lives in Cedar Park, Texas with his wife and muse, Maria.
The Jazz on the Tube podcast theme song is “Mambo Inferno” performed by The Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra conducted by Bobby Sanabria from the CD ¡Que Viva Harlem!
At the end of today’s interview, we featured “I’m an Old Cow Hand”, written by Johnny Mercer and performed by Kenny Dorham (Xanadu Records, The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album) recorded January 10, 1960 (4:12)
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Inspired by Chapter One (pgs. 28-34) of Texan Jazz by Dave Oliphant
Composer Euday Bowman (1915)
Born November 9, 1887, Fort Worth, Texas
Louis Armstrong – Recorded 1927
Benny Moten & His Kansas City Orchestra – Recorded 1927
Duke Ellington – 1931
Fats Waller – Recorded 1935
Count Basie with Lester Young – Recorded 1939
Andy Kirk featuring Mary Lou Williams (piano and arranger) – Recorded 1940
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP0bsxX0TqM
Sidney Bechet – Recorded 1941
This page inspired by Chapter One (pgs. 28-34) of Texan Jazz by Dave Oliphant
– Ken McCarthy
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Bebop pioneer and a man who built bridges between the great Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean musical traditions.
A full hour of music (no video)
A playlist assembled by the Jazz on the Tube.
Playlist:
1. Tin Tin Deo
2. Alone Together
3. Manteca
4. Ooh-Shoo-Be-Doo-Bee
5. Groovin´ High
6. Birk’s Works
7. School Days
8. I Can’t Get Started
9. They Can’t Take That Awa From Me
10. There Is No Greater Love
11. Lady Be Good
12. The Mooche
President Jimmy Carter thawed the freeze between the United States and Cuba a bit by allowing a boatload of American musicians to travel to Havana to perform with Cuban musicians, the first such officially sanctioned visit since 1961.
Check out the young, very serious and (very thin) Arturo Sandoval and Paquito D’Rivera.
Smoking hot!
Personnel:
Dizzy Gillespie, leader and trumpet
Arturo Sandoval, trumpet
Stan Getz, saxophone
Paquito D’Rivera, saxophone
David Amram, french horn
Ronnie Jones, guitar
Ben Brown, bass
Oscar Valdes, chekeres
Los Papinesm, congas
Mickey Roker, drums
If anyone knows other musicians not listed, please let me know.
Also, if anyone knows where the rest of the tape is, I’m all ears.
– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube
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A short list of some of the master musicians who passed in 2018
A Jazz on the Tube playlist
1. Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) – Respect (00:00)
2. Hugh Masekela (1939-2018) – Coal Train (02:25)
3. Bill Watrous (1939-2018) – Nancy With The Laughing Face (12:25)
4. Henry Butler (1949-2018) – Something you got (21:05)
5. Jerry Gonzalez (1949-2018) – United (27:40)
6. Roy Hargrove (1969-2018) – Strasbourg Saint Denis (39:55)
7. John Von Ohlen (1941–2018) – Chipas (52:17)
8. Randy Weston (1926-2018) – Hi Fly (59:23)
9. Hamiet Bluiett (1940–2018) – Eddie Lang Jazz Festival 2010 (01:09:01)
10. Sonny Fortune (1939-2018) – Revelation (01:18:23)
11. Big Jay McNeely (1927–2018) – Live in LA 1983 (01:26:07)
12. Otis Rush (1935-2018) – I Can’t Quit You Baby (01:32:41)
13. Jack Costanzo (1919-2018) – I’m Gonna Live ‘Til I Die (01:38:08)
14. Nancy Wilson (1937-2018) – The Very Thought Of You (01:41:55)
