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
The Belgrade Dixieland Orchestra it is the one and only jazz orchestra in the region with its permanent dance troupe. Concert spectacles with as many as 20 artists on the stage performed by the BDO and DDS have been absolutely unique to the jazz scenes in this part of Europe. BDO concerts abroad: The Belgrade Dixieland Orchestra The Belgrade Dixieland Orchestra, (BDO) founded in Belgrade in 2001, is one of the best-known and most popular jazz orchestras in Serbia. It has evolved from the original "Ljubomir Matijaca Dixieland Band", which was the only group of this musical orientation in Serbia in the last decades