Jo Jones in City of Kansas City - 1933
from Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It, pages 285-286:
After I got into Kansas City, I remember walking into the Sunset, and there was Pete Johnson and a drummer named Merrill and an alto player named Walter Knight. This was about 1933. I have never heard anybody play a sax like he did in my life. I can hear a little of it in Charlie Parker today. They only had three pieces in that group. But since that club had sessions so late and the other clubs closed early, they would soon have an augmented bandstand. There were jam sessions that I used to watch there in Kansas City, even before I got with the Basie band, that were unlike any other jam … more >>
Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro, Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It (London, 1992), p. 285-286. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1435570859629 accessed: 19 April, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| Kansas City Jazz music | performed by Merrill, Peter Johnson, Walter Knight |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 1933 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |