Kansas City Blues
| Name | Birth year | Death year |
|---|---|---|
| Scrapper Blackwell | 1903 | 1962 |
| Walter Brown | 1917 | 1956 |
| Jay McShann | 1916 | 2006 |
| Arnold Moore | 1914 | 2005 |
| Jimmy Rushing | c.1902 | 1972 |
| Big Joe Turner | 1911 | 1985 |
Read more about this topic: List Of Blues Musicians
Famous quotes containing the words kansas city, kansas, city and/or blues:
“Kansas City is lost; I am here!”
—A. Edward Sullivan. Professor Quail (W.C. Fields)
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.... Now I know we’re not in Kansas.”
—Noel Langley (1898–1981)
“The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers’ hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)