Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good

The brand of jazz that developed in the Kansas City area in the period from the late 1920s to the late 1930s is recognised as both a distinct stylistic variation within the larger genre and a transitional stage between earlier forms of African-American music, such as ragtime and blues, and later, more modern forms, up to and including bebop. Kansas City's brand of jazz has been described asthe most straightforward and direct style which has been developed outside New Orôleans,by Hughues Pan...