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Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop--a History
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date July 13, 2006
Pages 274
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780195307122
ISBN-10 0195307127
Dimensions 1 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight 1.05 lbs.
Original list price $19.99
Other format details university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: There were four major galaxies in the early jazz universe, and three of them--New Orleans, Chicago, and New York--have been well documented in print. But there has never been a serious history of the fourth, Kansas City, until now.
In this colorful history, Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix capture the golden age of Kansas City jazz, and bring us a colorful portrait of old Kaycee itself, back then a neon riot of bars, bambling dens, and taxi dance halls, all ruled over by Boss Tom Pendergast, who had transformed a dusty cowtown into the Paris of the Plains. The authors show how this wide-open, gin-soaked town gave birth to a music that was more basic and more viscerally exciting than other styles of jazz, its singers belting out a rough-and-tumble urban style of blues, its piano players pounding out a style later known as "boogie-woogie." We visit the great landmarks, like the Reno Club, the "Biggest Little Club in the World," where Lester Young and Count Basie made jazz history, and Charlie Parker began his musical education in the alley out back. The lives of the great musicians who made Kansas City swing are illuminated, with colorful profiles of jazz figures such as Mary Lou Williams, Big Joe Turner, Jimmy Rushing, and Andy Kirk and his "Clouds of Joy."
Kansas City Jazz is the definitive account of the raw, hard-driving style that put Kansas City on the musical map. It is a must read for everyone who loves jazz or American music history.


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9780195307122 | details & prices | 274 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $19.99
About: There were four major galaxies in the early jazz universe, and three of them--New Orleans, Chicago, and New York--have been well documented in print.

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