Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Big Joe Turner: How Kansas City Vice Birthed Kansas City Jazz

Chuck Haddix joins Nate to discuss his book “Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop--A History.”

Nate and Chuck talk about the corrupt Kansas City machine and how the vice it fostered produced great American music from Ragtime to Bebop, Count Basie to Charlie Parker.

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• Ted Gioia On The Jazz Standards
  
• Peter Doggett On Benny Goodman, Count Basie & the Age of Swing
  

This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.