Kansas City Blues
Name | Birth year | Death year |
---|---|---|
Scrapper Blackwell | 1903 | 1962 |
Walter Brown | 1917 | 1956 |
Jay McShann | 1916 | 2006 |
Arnold Moore | 1914 | 2005 |
Jimmy Rushing | c.1902 | 1972 |
Big Joe Turner | 1911 | 1985 |
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Famous quotes containing the words kansas city, kansas, city and/or blues:
“Kansas City is lost; I am here!”
—A. Edward Sullivan. Professor Quail (W.C. Fields)
“Since the Civil War its six states have produced fewer political ideas, as political ideas run in the Republic, than any average county in Kansas or Nebraska.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“Today, San Francisco has experienced a double tragedy of incredible proportions. As acting mayor, I order an immediate state of mourning in our city. The city and county of San Francisco must and will pull itself together at this time. We will carry on as best as we possibly can.... I think we all have to share the same sense of shame and the same sense of outrage.”
—Dianne Feinstein (b. 1933)
“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.”
—James Weldon Johnson (18711938)