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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 ...
Benjamin „Bennie“ Moten (* 13. November 1894 in Kansas City, Missouri; † 2. April 1935 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Jazzpianist und Bandleader. Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben und Wirken. 1.1 1894–1929. 1.2 1930–1935. 2 Literatur. 3 Weblinks. 4 Einzelnachweise. Leben und Wirken. 1894–1929.
16. Aug. 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.
Bennie Moten. Author. David Conrads. 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.
"Moten Swing" (originally "Moten's Swing") is a 1932 jazz standard by Bennie Moten and his Kansas City Orchestra. It was an important jazz standard in the move towards a freer form of orchestral jazz and the development of Swing music.
28. März 2024 · big-band jazz. Bennie Moten (born November 13, 1894, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.—died April 2, 1935, Kansas City) was an American pianist, one of the earliest known organizers of bands in the Midwest in the emergent years of jazz.
But the Bennie Moten Orchestra would soon build upon its earliest recordings to develop a distinct Kansas City style of jazz that later dominated the jazz scene in the late 1930s and 1940s. The Bennie Moten Orchestra. Courtesy of the American Jazz Museum. Bennie Moten, bandleader and namesake of the orchestra, was born on December 13, 1893 ...
