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Kansas City jazz is a style of jazz that developed in Kansas City, Missouri during the 1920s and 1930s, which marked the transition from the structured big band style to the much more improvisational style of bebop. The hard- swinging, bluesy transition style is bracketed by Count Basie, who in 1929 signed with Bennie Moten 's Kansas City ...
1922. (1922) –1932. (1932) Labels. Victor Records. Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra was the first Kansas City jazz band to achieve national recognition, which it acquired through national radio broadcasts. It was founded in 1918, as the Coon-Sanders Novelty Orchestra, by drummer Carleton Coon and pianist Joe Sanders.
The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra was founded by Jim Mair and Gene Hall in Kansas City in May 2003 after being inspired by similar jazz orchestras across the United States, though it was primarily modeled after the Columbus Jazz Orchestra. [2] Jim's wife, Mary Mair, was also integral in getting the orchestra started. [1]
Jazz singer Lisa Henry will be “telling her story” with the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra in two performances. She sang at the White House, around the world. Next: A concert in hometown Kansas City
Benjamin Moten (November 13, 1893 – April 2, 1935) [2] was an American jazz pianist and band leader born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. [3]He led his Kansas City Orchestra, the most important of the regional, blues-based orchestras active in the Midwest in the 1920s, and helped to develop the riffing style that would come to define many of the 1930s big bands.
The Count Basie Orchestra was founded in 1934 in Kansas City by the legendary jazz band leader William “Count” Basie. The band, with 15 to 18 members, continued after his death in 1984 and ...
Kansas City Jazz Orchestra — ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ ... Popular local vocalist Lee Langston will join the orchestra for this first-ever big band arrangement of Guaraldi’s beloved ...
Count Basie Orchestra. The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16- to 18-piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936. Despite a brief disbandment at the beginning of the 1950s, the band survived long past the big band era itself and the death of Basie ...