Basie Beginnings: Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, 1929-1932.Basie Beginnings: Bennie Moten's Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). Orchestra, 1929-1932 (BMG BMG Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (Germand: Federal Ministry for Health) BMG Be My Girl BMG Blue Man Group BMG Bertelsmann Music Group BMG Be My Guest BMG Browning Machine Gun BMG Bulk Metallic Glass RCA-bluebird 9768-2-RB). Count Basie set the jazz world on fire with his solidly rocking band in the Thirties when he hit New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . But he did not spring full-armored out of the head of some A & R man. His musical roots and the men he brought with him were strictly Kansas City, which with McKinney's Cotton Pickers McKinney's Cotton Pickers were an United States jazz band founded in Detroit in 1926 by William McKinney, who expanded his Synco Septet to ten pieces. In 1927 Don Redman left Fletcher Henderson's orchestra to become the Cotton Pickers' musical director, and he assembled a band , the Jay McShann band, and Bennie Moten's orchestra had dominated jazz in the central Mississippi basin. What the Kansas City school contributed to jazz and gave to Basie is all here on this exciting CD in which the Count is featured on piano. It should give pause to those who believe that Fletcher Henderson and Duke Elhngton invented big band" jazz. |
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