Kansas City jazz Kansas City jazz Kansas City jazz is a style of jazz that developed in Kansas City during the 1920s and 1930s, which marked the transition from the structured big band style to the musical improvisation style of Bebop. The hard-swinging, bluesy transition style is bracketed by Count Basie who in 1929 signed with the Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra and Kansas City native Charlie Parker who ushered in the Bebop style in America. "While New Orleans was the birthplace of jazz, America's music grew up in Kansas City". Kansas City is known as one of the most popular "cradles of
Dixieland Jass Band One-Step itself a version of "Livery Stable Blues". In 1933, Nick LaRocca copyrighted a new arrangement of the song under the title "Original Dixieland One-Step" with Edward Marks in New York. In 1937, he copyrighted the song for the UK publication with Peter Maurice in London. The song was described as "a new arrangement of the familiar jazz favorite with vocal refrain" on the sheet music cover which featured photographs of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1937 and 1919. The Castle Jazz band recorded the song in 1949 and released it on Castle Records as a 78. Sonny Brooks and