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Almost every jazz history depicts Kansas City jazz as a fertile ground for the development of big bands, virtuosic performances, and legendary performers. [3] In the 1920s was a Great Migration from the south and the search for musical work in Kansas City, Missouri, [4] where the Black population rose from 23,500 to 42,000 between 1912 and 1940.
The group left Kansas City for the first time in 1924 for a three-month engagement in a roadhouse in Chicago, Illinois. [1] The orchestra moved to Chicago the same year, where Jules Stein used the profits from a tour he booked for them to establish the Music Corporation of America ( MCA ), with the orchestra as its first client.
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]
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The Big Bands & All That Jazz Society presents its season-ending concert Monday. Paul Martin's Artistic Jazz Orchestra performs May 11. Area jazz musicians to take the stage for two concerts
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.
Residents could start moving in to a new six-story, $26 million apartment complex nearing completion in Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District as soon as November.. One Nine Vine, an 81,550 ...
Lonnie McFadden was born on January 1, 1956, in Kansas City, Missouri. McFadden and his siblings were raised by their parents in the Jazz District of Kansas City, Missouri. His father, renowned tap dancer and musician Jimmy McFadden, had a strong influence on Lonnie's musical development.