BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20190725T233000Z DTEND:20190726T010000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Cowtown in Jazz History DESCRIPTION:Fort Worth native Dave Oliphant shares history about Fort Worth and Texas jazz musicians. During his presentation\, Oliphant will talk about Texas jazz musicians\, primarily those from Fort Worth\, and play recordings by a variety of musicians to demonstrate the major developments\, many led by Texas musicians. He will also read some of his own poetry that celebrates Texas jazz recordings.\n\nDave Oliphant was born in Fort Worth in 1939 and is the author of three historical studies of Jazz\, including Texan Jazz(University of Texas Press) and The Early Swing Era\, 1930 to 1941(Greenwood Press). He also edited a volume of essays on Jazz entitled The Bebop Revolution in Words and Music. His most recent publications on Jazz include KD: A Jazz Biography (2012) and The Hero's Fall I Fell For: Jazz Poems (2017). For thirty years\, he taught and/or edited a scholarly journal at The University of Texas at Austin. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Fort Worth native Dave Oliphant shares history about Fort Worth and Texas jazz musicians. During his presentation\, Oliphant will talk about Texas jazz musicians\, primarily those from Fort Worth\, and play recordings by a variety of musicians to demonstrate the major developments\, many led by Texas musicians. He will also read some of his own poetry that celebrates Texas jazz recordings.

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Dave Oliphant was born in Fort Worth in 1939 and is the author of three historical studies of Jazz\, including \;Texan Jazz(University of Texas Press) and \;The Early Swing Era\, 1930 to 1941(Greenwood Press). He also edited a volume of essays on Jazz entitled \;The Bebop Revolution in Words and Music. His most recent publications on Jazz include \;KD: A Jazz Biography \;(2012) and \;The Hero&rsquo\;s Fall I Fell For: Jazz Poems \;(2017). For thirty years\, he taught and/or edited a scholarly journal at The University of Texas at Austin.

\n LOCATION:Fort Worth Public Library Central Library - Tandy Lecture Hall 500 W 3rd St Fort Worth\, TX 76102 UID:e.1802.12177 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260428T175513Z URL:https://business.fortworthchamber.com/events/details/cowtown-in-jazz-history-12177 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR