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.

Jazz Style in Kansas City and the South West

Arts & Photography

Ross Russell

Music

University of California Press

This work on Charlie Bird Parker offers a picture of not only of the saxophonist-composer as an artist and as a human being, but also of zeitgeist and the musical/social setting that produced him. It shows his complex personality; his great appetites; the extent of his influence; and his work.

Bird Lives! The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie 'Yardbird' Parker

Charterhouse, New York

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Jazz Style in Kansas City and the South West

Bird Lives! The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie 'Yardbird' Parker