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Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop--A History
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by Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix
Sales Rank: 936944
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List Price: $17.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 320 pages
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA; New Ed edition July 13, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0195307127
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195307122
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Product Review
"Driggs/Haddix's successful condensation of a huge volume of material into a readable narrative is a mirror image of Daniels's efforts to stretch limited amounts of information to book length. Kansas City Jazz is the publication we have been waiting for from Driggs, and Haddix's contribution has make it even more valuable than might have been expected."--Brian Priestly, Jazz Perspectives
"[A] successful condensation of a huge volume of material into a readable narrativeKansas City Jazz is the publication we have been waiting for from Driggs, and Haddix's contribution has made it even more valuable than might have been expected."--Jazz Perspectives
"A welcome addition to the jazz literature. Driggs and Haddix's book gorgeously captures the heady jazz days of Kaycee."--The San Diego Union-Tribune
"Authoritative. The authors paint a vivid portrait of the fluid and competitive jazz scene."--The Kansas City Star
"The strength of Kansas City Jazz lies in its exhaustive mapping of Kansas City culture and its musicians. The authors' years of work as collectors and archivists have resulted in a book that is indispensable for Midwest jazz studies, telling this story vividly and with thorough documentation."--Marc Rice, Journal of the Society for American Music
Product Description
There were four major galaxies in the early jazz universe, and three of them--New Orleans, Chicago, and New York--have been well documented in print. But there has never been a serious history of the fourth, Kansas City, until now.
In this colorful history, Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix capture the golden age of Kansas City jazz, and bring us a colorful portrait of old Kaycee itself, back then a neon riot of bars, bambling dens, and taxi dance halls, all ruled over by Boss Tom Pendergast, who had transformed a dusty
cowtown into the Paris of the Plains. The authors show how this wide-open, gin-soaked town gave birth to a music that was more basic and more viscerally exciting than other styles of jazz, its singers belting out a rough-and-tumble urban style of blues, its piano players pounding out a style later
known as "boogie-woogie." We visit the great landmarks, like the Reno Club, the "Biggest Little Club in the World," where Lester Young and Count Basie made jazz history, and Charlie Parker began his musical education in the alley out back. The lives of the great musicians who made Kansas City swing
are illuminated, with colorful profiles of jazz figures such as Mary Lou Williams, Big Joe Turner, Jimmy Rushing, and Andy Kirk and his "Clouds of Joy."
Kansas City Jazz is the definitive account of the raw, hard-driving style that put Kansas City on the musical map. It is a must read for everyone who loves jazz or American music history.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop--A History (Hardcover)
With vivid descriptions of the "wide-open" town of Jazz era Kansas City and its dramatic denizens, you can envision the scenes of Basie's coming of age, Charlie Parker's KC childhood and musical evolution, big bands dueling each other, glamorous theaters and giant dance halls, bars open 24 hours, remarkable women, "sporting men," police looking the other way, and so much more. The extensive research really pays off with quotations from reviews and ads from "back in the day," interviews with legends, a generous array of photographs, and a cohesive and accessible presentation of information from many sources. The sights, sounds, scents, and sentiments conveyed by Chuck Haddix and Frank Driggs in Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop are the next best thing to a time-machine. Next, Oxford needs to put out a companion CD (or DVD with photos and copies of the original media) with the recordings of the music and performers to help us fully appreciate the musical innovations from the Paris of the Plains.
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