#KANSAS CITY JAZZ HENRY STONE FULL#

Joining a dozen other acolytes, Driggs helped Stearns by teaching overflow adult education courses.

#KANSAS CITY JAZZ HENRY STONE FULL#

Rose introduced Driggs to Marshall Stearns, whose Institute of Jazz Studies was running full blast out of his townhouse at 108 Waverly Place near Washington Square. More often than not, Driggs found himself standing elbow to elbow with the pale and gaunt avant-garde composer Alan Hovhaness. Rose, voluble and erudite, sold dubbed acetate discs of rare sides.

Seeking long-out-of-print 78s, he became a regular fixture at Boris Rose’s crowded studio in New York City on 15th Street east of the Third Avenue El. After graduation, Driggs discovered Kansas City Jazz and began earnestly collecting 78 rpm discs of Bennie Moten, Count Basie, Jay McShann, and other Kansas City bands. Listening to 78s of Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Bunk Johnson, and other early New Orleans pioneers, Driggs fell under the spell of the music. Driggs first heard the siren call of jazz while attending Princeton in the late 1940s. Over the years, he had written extensively on the development of jazz in Kansas City and the Southwest, interviewed many of the musicians who created the tradition, and amassed a hefty collection of photos. As the leading authority on Kansas City Jazz, he brought considerable resources to the project.

In 1977, Frank Driggs entered into a contract with Oxford University Press to write a history of Kansas City Jazz. THIS HISTORY OF KANSAS CITY JAZZ is decades in the making. Preface ix Introduction 1 1 Tales from Tom’s TownĢ Carrie’s Gone to Kansas City 3 Get Low-Down Blues 4 The Territoriesħ Until the Real Thing Comes Along 135 8 Roll ’Em, Pete Pendergast, who took me to the old town, inspired me to tell the story, and made it all happen. M元508.8.K 781.65'09778'411-dc22 200463568ġ35798642 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paperįor the late Richard Smith, who gave so much to this project, and Joan Peyser, for everything you are.

Jazz-Missouri-Kansas City-History and criticism. Contents: Tales from Tom’s town-Carrie’s gone to Kansas City- Get low-down blues-The territories-Blue devil blues-Moten’s swing- Until the real thing comes along-Roll ’em, Pete-Hootie’s blues. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Kansas City jazz : from ragtime to bebop / Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Driggs, Frank. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2005 by Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Kansas City Jazz From Ragtime to Bebop≺ History Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop-A History

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