Tex Wyndham is a recognized authority
on ragtime and early jazz. Since 1968, he has performed at national ragtime
& jazz festivals, clubs, community concerts, and cruises as a ragtime
soloist and (on cornet) as leader of the Red Lion
Jazz Band and the Rent
Party Revellers. He
is the author of the book Texas
Shout: How Dixieland Jazz Works, and his columns appeared
regularly in jazz publications for over 40 years. Tex has received awards
from the Toronto Ragtime Society
and the Pennsylvania Jazz Society,
and in 2014 the Scott Joplin International
Ragtime Foundation presented him with its lifetime
achievement award. He served as the Festival Jazz Education Coordinator for
the 1992 Sacramento Jazz Jubilee,
and as a panel discussion leader at the annual convention of the American Federation of Jazz Societies.
Tex’s ragtime and Dixieland appreciation shows have been broadcast on
jazz radio programs throughout the world, and used in classrooms from
elementary school to college. He is
heard on over 30 recordings.
For more information, contact Tex
Wyndham at: 610 388-6330. |
Tex Wyndham |