Midwest Blues
Feb 07, 2020
2 minutes
BY MATTHEW KASSEL
In the first half of the 20th century, the Kansas City jazz scene was one of the country’s most vibrant hubs of blues and improvisation, home to such pioneers as Jay McShann, Bennie Moten, Count Basie, and, of course, Charlie Parker, the architect of bebop.
If the scene isn’t what it
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