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| Title | Play: Not Without Laughter |
| Abstract | Chapter focuses on the music or club scene in Kansas City in the 1920s and 1930s. "Kansas City provided a setting for the grooming and maturation of some of the country's most important jazz voices". A distinctive style of jazz, represented by Count Basie, Lester Young and Mary Lou Williams represents Kansas City. Groups profiled in the chapter are: The Twelve Clouds of Joy, Walter Page's Blue Devils, The Bennie Moten Orchestra, The Count Basie Orchestra Jay McShann and Charlie Parker. |
| Author | Charles Coulter
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| Date | 2006 |
| Source | "Take Up the Black Man's Burden" Kansas City's African American Communities 1865-1939 |
| Location | MVSC BROWSING 977.8411 C85T |
| Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
| Chapter Title | 6 |
| Page | 217-228 |
| Local Subject | Nightclubs
Kirk, Andy
Page, Walter
Moten, Bennie
Basie, Count
Parker, Charlie
Musical Groups
African Americans
Jazz Musicians
Jazz
Clubs
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| Illustrations | Yes |
| Item Type | Book Section
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| Access This Item | This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests |
| Item ID | 216353 |
| CONTENTdm number | 10662 |
