Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest
- ISBN-10
- 0520018532
- ISBN-13
- 9780520018532
- Category
- Jazz
- Pages
- 292
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1971
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Ross Russell
Description
From the twenties through the forties, Kansas City was the jazz city. Lester Young, Jack Teagarden, Count Basie, Ben Webster, Charlie Christian, Mary Lou Williams, and Charlie Parker are just a few of the jazz luminaries discussed in Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest, the essential account of the evolution of the Kansas City style from its ragtime roots to the birth of bebop. Book jacket.
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