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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.
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.
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 Kansas City Jazz Orchestra is calling its newly announced 2024-2025 season “Experiences,” and it’s an apt title. ... So we’re going to try to do a Kansas City big-band interpretation ...
As part of its season of “Conversations,” the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra conducted by Clint Ashlock will be joined by Henry for an autobiographical concert Feb. 9 and 10 at the Folly Theater.
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 ...
To that end, the orchestra incorporated youth outreach and education into their strategy, an initiative entitled JazzWorks! They co-sponsored the third annual Kansas City Kansas Community College Jazz Camp and held clinics at Kansas City schools. [1] By 2008, the orchestra was an 18-piece band.
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 ...