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"Lester Leaps In" is a jazz standard originally recorded by Count Basie's Kansas City Seven in 1939. [1] The composition, credited to the group's tenor saxophone player Lester Young, is a contrafact based on the chord progression of "I Got Rhythm", and serves as a vehicle for interweaving solos by Young and Basie.
Kansas City's Hotel Savoy was built in 1888. It was built by the owners of the Arbuckle Coffee Company. In 1903 the original hotel was remodeled and the west wing was added featuring the Savoy Grill dining room. The Savoy Grill was the oldest continuously operating restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri, until it temporarily closed in 2016.
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "One of Count Basie's few small-group sessions of the '60s was his best". [2] In a contemporaneous review in the October 11, 1962 issue of Down Beat magazine, Leonard Feather rated the album at 4.5 stars.
The club hosted DJ events, hip-hop parties and two-step dancing nights.
A serial killer who terrorized Kansas City’s East Side and was convicted in the murders of seven women died in custody over the weekend. Terry A. Blair, 62, was pronounced dead at 1:18 a.m ...
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Why 23.2, 2 and 70 were key digits for the Kansas City Chiefs in Sunday’s 27-17 home win vs. Jacksonville.
The company was founded by Clarence Hayman (1881–1971) who owned several restaurant venues before establishing the concept of a ground floor cafeteria, in 1921, at 1220 Grand Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. [1] He later opened similar branches in other cities of the Midwestern United States.