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Kansas City lowball, a nickname for Deuce-to-seven lowball poker; Transport. City of Kansas City, a 1947 to 1968 Wabash Railroad streamliner train; City of St. Louis, a Union Pacific streamliner train called City of Kansas City from 1968 to 1971, USS Kansas City, the name of several U.S. Navy ships; Other. Kansas City, a 1996 film by Robert ...
Milton Morris (1911–November 21, 1983) was an American businessperson, politician, and an influential proprietor of music clubs in Kansas City.He was involved in the careers of various Jazz musicians including Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, Jo Jones and Count Basie.
William James "Count" Basie (/ ˈ b eɪ s i /; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) [1] was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording.
Swing jazz emerged as a dominant form in American music, in which some virtuoso soloists became as famous as the band leaders. Key figures in developing the "big" jazz band included bandleaders and arrangers Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Glenn Miller, and Artie Shaw.
Benjamin Moten (November 13, 1893 – April 2, 1935) [2] was an American jazz pianist and band leader born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. [3]He led his Kansas City Orchestra, the most important of the regional, blues-based orchestras active in the Midwest in the 1920s, and helped to develop the riffing style that would come to define many of the 1930s big bands.
Main menu. Main menu. move to ... Three Windows is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances ... "Kansas City Breaks" - 6:29 ...
The Money Museum of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, with exhibits and tours of the multi-story cash vault. Irish Museum and Cultural Center located in Kansas City's Union Station. Kansas City Museum at Corinthian Hall, local area history and natural sciences museum in a Beaux-Arts mansion.
Heidi’s Jazz Club & Restaurant, Cocoa Beach [1]: ... Subway Club, Kansas City [4] Peacock Alley, St. Louis; Nebraska. Dreamland Ballroom, North Omaha; New Hampshire