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Benjamin Moten (November 13, 1893 – April 2, 1935) was an American jazz pianist and band leader born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. [3] He led his Kansas City Orchestra, the most important of the regional, blues-based orchestras active in the Midwest in the 1920s, and helped to develop the riffing style that would come to define many of the 1930s big bands.
1923-1927 Review by Scott Yanow. Pianist Bennie Moten led one of the finest jazz bands on record in the 1920s, a group that included many of the top musicians of the Midwest. On the first of four Classics CDs -- all of which are recommended to vintage jazz collectors -- that reissue the master takes of all of Moten's recordings, the band ...
He had already been working in the Midwest for several years prior to joining Bennie Moten’s band in the late summer of 1929 - together with Count Basie! Hence the tremendous progress of their orchestra, so well documented by the fine recordings you are about to hear. Bennie Moten was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 13, 1894.
Bennie Moten ( Kansas City, Misuri, 13 de noviembre de 1894 - 2 de abril de 1935) fue un pianista, compositor y director de orquesta de jazz - swing . Comenzó siendo aún niño, tocando el saxhorn en un grupo de metales de su ciudad natal.
31 de mar. de 2022 · Dan, thank you for joining me! 1928-30 were pivotal years in the evolving style of the Moten band, during which it absorbed key members of Walter Page’s Blue Devils, including pianist William “Count” Basie, Eddie Durham (gtr; tmb; arr.), Oran “Hot Lips” Page (tpt) and Jimmy Rushing (vocals).
16 de ago. de 2010 · As one of the most renowned big-band leaders of the 1920s, Bennie Moten succeeded in developing the “Kansas City” sound in big-band jazz. Born in Kansas City, Missouri on November 13, 1894, Moten spent most of his youth playing baritone saxophone in the city’s numerous brass bands. In 1918, after switching to the piano and studying ...
Bennie Moten Orchestra. Courtesy of the American Jazz Museum. Kansas City jazz, a hard-swinging, blues-based musical style that flourished in the 1920s and '30s, is arguably this city's greatest contribution to the uniquely American art form of jazz.
