From the twenties through the forties, Kansas City was the jazz city, home of Lester Young, Benny Moten, Jack Teagarden, Andy Kirk, Count Basie, Jay McShann, Ben Webster, Mary Lou Williams, and Charlie Parker, to name a few. Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest is the essential account of the evolution of the Kansas City style, from its ragtime roots to the birth of bebop.
- ISBN10 0306807483
- ISBN13 9780306807480
- Publish Date 21 March 1997 (first published 9 December 1971)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 9 May 2001
- Publish Country US
- Publisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Imprint Da Capo Press Inc
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 342
- Language English