All That Jazz

The history of jazz in North Texas is long and deep—there's Scott Joplin, Hot Lips Schutze, Jack Teagarden, T Bone Walker, Harry James and Charlie Christian, just to name a few, all of which you can see on display in a collection of photographs at the J. Erik Jonsson Central...
By Jim SchutzeApril 5, 2007
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The history of jazz in North Texas is long and deep—there’s Scott Joplin, Hot Lips Schutze, Jack Teagarden, T Bone Walker, Harry James and Charlie Christian, just to name a few, all of which you can see on display in a collection of photographs at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young St. Roots of Dallas Jazz, a presentation of the Texas Music Center, will be up through the end of April in the department of Fine Arts on the fourth floor. Call 214-670-1643. Wait a minute. It’s Hot Lips Page, isn’t it?

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Jim Schutze has been the city columnist for the Dallas Observer since 1998. He has been a recipient of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ national award for best commentary and Lincoln University’s national Unity Award for writing on civil rights and racial issues. In 2011 he was admitted to the Texas Institute of Letters.

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