From: National Review
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Date: 3/5/1990
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Author: De Toledano, Ralph
Basie Beginnings: Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, 1929-1932 (BMG RCA-bluebird 9768-2-RB). Count Basie set the jazz world on fire with his solidly rocking band in the Thirties when he hit New York. But he did not spring full-armored out of the head of some A & R man. His musical roots and the men he brought with him were strictly Kansas City, which with ...
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