() Jazz Music: History of Jazz Music in Kansas City
From its beginnings as nothing more than a simple trading post on the banks of the Missouri river, to its raucous heyday in the 1920's and 30's, Kansas City has retained the independent spirit of its frontier beginnings. Even though an assortment of colorful characters, cowboys, politicians, criminals, and even wagon trains populate the histor
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() Jazz: What In The Heck Is It?
All of us know what jazz is when we hear it, but trying to define it is a different matter. With so many variant styles, coming up with an accurate definition of jazz is difficult if not impossible.But I suppose that an article on jazz really ought to attempt to define the term ?jazz.? My Thorndike-Barnhart Dictionary defines jazz like
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