Title: Kansas City Jazz: 30's and 40's Artist: Various Artists Label: Acrobat Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 824046514426 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2003-11-05 Number of Discs: 1
The wide open City Of Kansas with it's unregulated bars and clubs helped nurture the development of Jazz in America. This Compilation offers 25 examples of Kansas based performers including, Bennie Moten, Jay McShann, Count Basie, Mary Lou Williams and Big Joe Turner.
Tracks: 1.1 Night Life - Mary Lou Williams 1.2 In Dat Mornin' - Jimmie Lunceford ; His Chickasaw Syncopators 1.3 Somebody Stole My Gal - Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra 1.4 Hard Times Stomp - Red Perkins ; His Dixie Ramblers 1.5 The Duck's Yas Yas Yas - Eddie Johnson's Crackerjacks 1.6 Toby - Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra 1.7 Moten Swing - Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra 1.8 Prince of Wails - Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra 1.9 Overhand (New Froggy Bottom) - the Mary Lou Williams Trio 1.10 Echo in the Dark - the Original St. Louis Crackerjacks 1.11 Time Out - Count Basie ; His Orchestra 1.12 Every Tub - Count Basie ; His Orchestra 1.13 Shorty George - Count Basie ; His Orchestra 1.14 Cherry Red - Joe Turner with Pete Johnson and His Boogie Woogie Boys 1.15 Vine Street Bustle - the Pete Johnson Blues Trio 1.16 Some Day Blues - the Pete Johnson Blues Trio 1.17 Holler Stomp - the Pete Johnson 1.18 Southern Fried (Hairy Joe Stomp) - Harlan Leonard ; His Rockets 1.19 My Gal Sal - Harlan Leonard ; His Rockets 1.20 Keep Rockin' - Harlan Leonard ; His Rockets 1.21 Dexters Blues - Jay McShann ; His Orchestra 1.22 Vine Street Boogie - the Jay McShann Trio 1.23 Hold 'Em, Hootie - the Jay McShann Trio 1.24 Sepian Bounce - Jay McShann ; His Orchestra 1.25 Come on Over to My House - Julia Lee with Jay McShann's Kansas City Stompers
