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Kansas City jazz is a style of jazz that developed in Kansas City, Missouri during the 1920s and 1930s, which marked the transition from the structured big band style to the much more improvisational style of bebop.
Jazz in Kansas City was born in the 1920s and continues today in clubs and events held throughout the city. More than 40 area nightclubs feature jazz on a regular basis. The roots of Kansas City jazz are quite varied. Blues singers of the 1920s and ragtime music greatly influenced the music scene.
Kansas City is the home of Kansas City swing, jazz and blues. The City’s rich historical legacy of music includes a transformational chapter in the history of American jazz and swing music.
Kansas City style, music associated with jazz musicians who, though not all born there, were based around Kansas City, Mo., during the 1930s: pianists Pete Johnson and Mary Lou Williams; singer Big Joe Turner; trumpeter Oran “Hot Lips” Page; saxophonists Buster Smith, Ben Webster, and Lester Young;
The American Jazz Museum is a jazz museum in the historic 18th and Vine district of Kansas City, Missouri. The museum preserves the history of American jazz music, with exhibits on Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and others.
Kansas City is world-renowned for its rich jazz and blues legacy. Blues formed the basic vocabulary for KC-style jazz. Blues singers of the 1920s and ragtime music greatly influenced the music scene, evolving eventually to Kansas City jazz—a new kind of blues that jumped with a jazz sound.
Kansas City Jazz. In the 1920s and 1930s, African American musicians in the Kansas City area developed their own style of jazz that pulled heavily from the blues music tradition as well as ragtime.
