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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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[6] [7] [8] In 2001, the Kansas City area manager of Bank of America proposed a $46 million redevelopment of 96 acres of blight across the District but canceled in 2005 ahead of the global crash of 2008, selling much of it to KC native millionaire Ephren W. Taylor II who likened his invisible investments to the comic book antihero The Phantom.
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.
After breaking ground in the Spring of 2022, a new six-story, $26 million apartment complex is nearing completion at 1901 Vine St., in the Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District.