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 |
Read more about this topic: List Of Blues Musicians
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)
“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)
“Holly Golightly: You know those days when you’ve got the mean reds?
Paul: The mean reds? You mean like the blues?
Holly Golightly: No, the blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of.”
—George Axelrod (b. 1922)