Goin’ to Kansas City

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Roots of Kansas City Jazz....Pages 1-23
Sources of the Early Kansas City Jazz Style: Ragtime and New Orleans Jazz....Pages 24-32
The Territories: Jazz Emerges in the Midwest....Pages 33-53
Tales from the Territories: The Twelve Clouds of Joy....Pages 54-63
Tales from the Territories: The Blue Devils....Pages 64-76
The Road Leads to Kansas City....Pages 77-82
Tom’s Town: The Pendergast Years....Pages 83-91
The Wide-Open Town....Pages 92-106
Stepping Out and Sitting In: The Musician’s Nightlife....Pages 107-113
Kansas City Jazz Style....Pages 114-120
The Bennie Moten Orchestra....Pages 121-134
The Count Basie Orchestra....Pages 135-147
George E. Lee and His Singing Novelty Orchestra....Pages 148-153
The Kansas City Rockets: Thamon Hayes and Harlan Leonard....Pages 154-162
The Jay McShann Orchestra....Pages 163-183
Kansas City Fade-out: Wartime and the Evolution of Jazz from the Big Bands....Pages 184-195
The Great Innovators of Kansas City Jazz: Buster Smith, Lester Young, and Charlie Parker....Pages 196-213
Kansas City Jazz Today....Pages 214-217
Back Matter....Pages 219-253