Latest Release
- 13 SEPT 2023
- 42 Songs
- The Blue Room · 1945
- It's Hard To Laugh Or Smile · 1935
- Kansas City Jazz Essentials · 1954
- Baby Dear · 2023
- Baby Dear · 2023
- It's Hard To Laugh Or Smile · 2023
- Baby Dear · 2023
- Missouri Wobble · 2023
- Missouri Wobble · 2023
- America - Early Jazz - "The Birth of Swing" · 2014
Albums
- 2023
About Bennie Moten
Pianist Bennie Moten led a regional big band which was the most esteemed group of the Kansas/Oklahoma/Missouri axis at that time. More importantly, the core of Count Basie's early band evolved out of the Bennie Moten Orchestra. The Count joined the group in 1929, collaborating with Moten on compositions and effectively co-leading the band, and then formed his own group after Moten's death in 1935.
- HOMETOWN
- Kansas City, MO, United States
- BORN
- 13 November 1893
- GENRE
- Jazz