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)
“Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country—it had all been done in our name.... The French city ... had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase.”
—James Fenton (b. 1949)
“The blues women had a commanding presence and a refreshing robustness. They were nurturers, taking the yeast of experience, kneading it into dough, molding it and letting it grow in their minds to bring the listener bread for sustenance, shaped by their sensibilities.”
—Rosetta Reitz, U.S. author. As quoted in The Political Palate, ch. 10, by Betsey Beaven et al. (1980)