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I I Sugar Hill Records Shelley King Marcelo Tafoya mej Tai ~e;$l&Curcis Peopl TaHeritage Songwrimrs kmiation - ent TwTd University Texas Department of AnricuIture m & Robin Didcron at John Kuna at waterloo Records Kimiko ibkita at the ~i@d Hartiey Cu. %&son Pduccions Jimmy LaFave Lucky Tomblin Jim Lawierdale Djangu Walker kph & Patti Dowling Bob Livingston Susan & Jerry Jeff BB& & Duan V~ckieLucero & Jwlie Carr at the John Wbeat at heCenter for Ammiran !% Propaganda Graup History at UT Austin qusicam Houston Marchman Bill Whitbeck & Rodney Hayden ~delkrgwon az Guene Hall Barbara Martin Lay& White mi m&y ek Piper Napkin Music Grant lvhdat MdMusic Bradley Jaye Williams !&at Fdy at Chatham Street W&we Ddbert ?&Clinton Burton Whn 9t.osk Flom Boob & Edith Michel at Eddie Wilson ,,aN~YF$ Agency Loudhouse Records Jay Woods at New West Records "-RathieFoster & Cyd Cassone Katy Moffitt Danny Roy Young ., http://ecommons.txstate.edu/jtmh/vol6/iss1/2 4 Bailey: The Texas Shuffle Produced by The Berkeley Electronic Press, 2006 1 'k8 Texas Shume ': Lone Star Underpinnings of the Kansas Civ Jcm Sound Journal of Texas Music History, Vol. 6 [2006], Iss. 1, Art. 3 7he story of Amerlcan juz is often .d~minakdby discussions of New Weans and of juz music's migro- 1 Won up the Mississippi RRlver into the urban centers of New York, Chicago, 1 Philadelphia, Detroit, and St. Louis. I mis narrative, whlle accurate in mony respecis, belies the true I nature of the music and, as with b any broad hisforIca1 generaliizu- tion, contulns an ultimate presump tlve flaw The emergence of jan cannot be aftributed solely fo any single clfy or reglon of he country. Instead, jan music Grew out of he collective experiences of Amerl- k b- .r~& cans from VU~~Wof backgrounds , living ihroughout the ndon.1 The routinely owrlookd conmibutions of T- &m to the dcvclopment of jazz unhmthe ndfor a broader un- of how chis music drew from a wide range of regidinfluenm. As dyas the I920s, mwhg pups of jm musidans, or %tory bands,* whicb indudad a n& of Tarnns, were hdping spread dmughout &t Souktand Miwest in such wwns as Kana City, Daltas. Fort Wod, Mo,Hnumn, Galveston. Sm Antonio, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and beyond. The w11cctive iducnaof dmc musihbought many things to /bear on the dmeIopment of American jazz, including a cemh smsc of frcwlom md impraviaation dm later would be rcseewd in the erne- of bebop ad in the impromp jam dm,or eonmrs," rhac mn until dawn and helped spdighr youagu arrists and Md, new musical hmuiom.' The Tmas and sourhwesrern jas~ http://ecommons.txstate.edu/jtmh/vol6/iss1/3 2 Bailey: The Texas Shuffle scenes, while not heralded on the same scale as those in New in competitive jam sessions, or cutting contests, which allowed Orleans, Chicago, and New York City, have not gone artists to hone their skills, display their talents, and establish completely unnoticed by scholars. Gunther Schuller, Amiri their place within the hierarchy of the territory band ~ircuit.~ Baraka, Ross Russell, Frank Driggs, and Albert Murray have Kansas City became a hub of activity for these bands long proclaimed the brilliance and influence of the beginning in the 1920s, in part, because the Theatre Owners southwestern style, as well as the prominent role Texans have Booking Association and independent bandleaders alike played in its development. Dave Oliphant's 1996 book, Texan routinely considered the city as the western terminus of the Jazz, offers the most complete discussion of Texas artists and touring circuit. When itinerant bands broke up at the end of their contributions to jazz music. Building on the work of these their tours, droves of musicians found themselves "stranded in authors and others, this essay further examines the careers of Kansas City. Before long, however, the local night club scene these jazz troubadours from the Southwest who helped to shape would be transformed, and the town was able to offer a variety the popular "Kansas City" sound of the 1920s through 1940s, of employment opportunities to these players.