JAZZED UP

Annual Eddie Durham Jazz Celebration held at Texas State University

“Eddie Durham is perhaps the least recognized, but perhaps the most important, Texas jazz musician in the past 100 years,” Hank Hehmsoth, professor of Jazz Piano and Composition at the school of Music at Texas State University, said.

Durham created a sound unlike any other and that sound originated in San Marcos around a century ago. Born in 1906, Durham’s career began in San Marcos with the Durham Brothers Orchestra.