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Kansas City
[City in Missouri, U.S.A.]
Used attrib. with ref. to a style of big-band jazz which evolved in Kansas City in the 1930s.
1946Hollywood Q. July 449 We have..Kansas City jazz. 1955L. Feather Encycl. Jazz i. 22 Kansas City jazz was brewing in the bands of Benny Moten and Andy Kirk. 1958P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz ix. 116 A further facet of Kansas City jazz: the singularity of the beat which it evolved to underline the inspiration of its soloists, and of its principal orchestral exponent, the Count Basie band. 1959M. T. Williams Art of Jazz (1960) xviii. 188 Charlie Parker is an exponent of the Kansas City style in general and Lester Young in particular. |