![]() ![]() ![]() The last shows sometimes didn't begin until 5 a.m.Īnd yet, the city's relationship with its music is a complicated one. Walk a little further, and you could catch the famed Count Basie Orchestra with Lester Young on saxophone. Wander into The Sunset, and you could hear singer Big Joe Turner and pianist Pete Johnson playing raucous Boogie Woogie. In A Historical Geography of Kansas City's Jazz District, Jason Woods notes that Connie Johnston, a pitcher for the Kansas City Monarchs, recalled the sidewalks being so crowded late at night that it was hard to walk around the Reno Club set up bleachers outside for people to listen in. The city was teeming with Black celebrities. A typical night out at the Reno would last until first light dawn, with the jam-packed audience feverishly doing the lindy hop or the jitterbug amid clouds of tobacco and marijuana smoke. Home to a host of jazz greats: Bennie Moten, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Big Joe Turner, Mary Lou Williams, Hot Lips Page (criminally underrated to this day!), Jay McShann, and others who played the city's raucous clubs, Kansas City became a smorgasbord for music lovers. Jazz first came to the city from the Deep South through traveling shows, and was nurtured in the city's African American neighborhoods. The vibrant District is now an overpolished relic of what was. In fact, a pattern of sabotage has seemed to threaten cradles of Black music wherever they spring up. Most musicians who amounted to anything, they would flock to Kansas City because that's the place where jobs were plentiful."īut the destruction of the storied blues scene in Southern cities like Memphis also happened to jazz in Kansas City. Rhythm and blues musician Jesse Stone, a Kansas City, Missouri native, once said "Kansas City… did more for jazz music, Black music, than any other influence at all." He told the Orlando Sentinel in 1993, "Almost all their joints that they had there, they used Black bands. Louis Armstrong - St.Read next: The Mutual Musicians Foundation is fighting the gentrification of Jazz in Kansas City Jimmie Noone - Blues My Naught Sweetie Gives to Me, St Louis Bluesĭuke Ellington - Song of the Cottonfield, The Mooche (10-17-28), New Orleans Low-Down, Creole Love Call, Black and Tan Fantasy Louis Armstrong - West End Blues, Muggles, Tight Like This, Gutbucket Blues, St James Infirmary, Beau Koo Jack, Yes! I'm in the Barrel, Skit-Dat-De-Dat, You're Next, What Did I Do to Be So Black & Blue, I'm Not Roughīessie Smith w/ Louis Armstrong - Reckless Blues, St. Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro, In a Silent Way, Bitches BrewĪlice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda ![]() John Coltrane - Plays the Blues, Village Vanguard Master Takes, A Love Supreme, First Meditations Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to ComeĬharles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um, Antibes, Presents Charles Mingus ![]() Miles Davis - '58 Sessions, Kind of Blue, The Legendary Stockholm Concert Thelonious Monk - With John Coltrane, With Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Misterioso, Brilliant Corners. I dunno, I need to learn more about the 30s.Ĭharlie Parker - A Studio Chronicle 40-48. Jimmie Noone - Blues My Naught Sweetie Gives to Meīillie Holiday, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Lester Young. Sidney Bechet - Kansas City Man Blues, New Orleans Hop Scop Blues, Texas Moaner Bluesīessie Smith w/ Louis Armstrong - Reckless Blues, St. Louis Armstrong - West End Blues, Muggles, Tight Like This, Gutbucket Blues, St James Infirmary King Oliver - Canal St Blues, Dippermouth Blues, Riverside Blues, Chimes Blues Louis Armstrong - Hot Fives & Hot Sevens (JSP)ĭuke Ellington - Mrs Clinksales to the Cotton Club King Oliver - King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: The Complete Set Here's a list of great/important albums by decade:įor the 20s, it's really important to get the right remaster, or else it will sound like shit. My cut & paste answer for every time this is asked. ![]()
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