Guadalupe, San Miguel, Jr.2015-02-112015-02-112014-011535-7104https://hdl.handle.net/10877/5451"Vamos, Lupongo. Es gratis." (Let's go, Lupongo. It's free.") This is how it all started. A simple invitation by my sister, Lilonga, to go to a jazz festival on a Sunday afternoon at Heritage Park in Corpus Christi, a city of just over 300,000 located on the Texas Gulf Coast about 150 miles north of the Mexican border. Although I was in town only for a few hours, I could not pass up the invitation. "A free jazz festival in Corpus," I said to myself. "Why not?" Off we went to enjoy the sights and sounds of the Texas Jazz Festival.Text16 pages1 file (.pdf)enTejano musicJazzCorpus Christi, TexasGulf Coast regionArticle