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Title
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Lady Sings the Cooch
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Description
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Article analyzes the music of Kansas City jazz singer Julia Lee, and its place in the jazz history of Kansas City. Includes an examination of the provacative nature of Lee's lyrics, as well as their reflection of the bawdy atmosphere of Kansas City in the 1920's and 30's.
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Date
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2005-06-02
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Kansas City's Got the Blues
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Description
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Description of the contemporary scene and history of the Blues music style in Kansas City, starting around the early 1920s.
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Date
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1992-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
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Description
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Photo and bio of Julia Lee (1902-1958), a black jazz and blues singer and native of Kansas City, performing with Count Basie and others.
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Kansas City Style of Jazz
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Description
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The authors in this book have traced the history and personalities involved in the immergence of the unique style of jazz that originated in the heartland and in particular in Kansas City during the 1920s-1940s. Individuals and groups detailed include: Count Basie, Jay McShann, Andy Kirk and the Clouds of Joy, Charlie "Bird" Parker, Mary Lou Williams, Bennie Moten, Lester Young, Claude Williams, George Lee, Julia Lee, Walter Page, Joe Turner and many more. The book also gives a description of the areas and places where groups played and performers rose to prominence as the 18th and Vine area, 12th Street, Fairyland Park, El Torreon Ballrooom, Paseo Hall, Pla-Mor Ballroom, Reno Club and numerous other roadhouses and clubs. Besides tracing the performers and style, reasons for the growth and eventual waning of local jazz are given.
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Date
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2005
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City's Queen of the Blues Is Gone--(But Not Forgotten)
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Description
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Photos and biographical article about Julia Lee (1902-1958), a black singer and pianist starting her career in the 1910s in Kansas City and earning "her reputation as one of the country's greatest blues singers." Description of her life and career, born in Boonville, Missouri, and coming to Kansas City as a child, performing at jazz clubs and speakeasies from the late 1910s and playing with various "Kaycee" jazz musicians, such as her brother George Lee, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Benny Moten, Jay McShann, et al., before dying "in her apartment at 2507 East 28th St."
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Date
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1978-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Julia Lee (The Last of the Great Blues Singers)
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about Julia Lee (1902-1958), an early Kansas City jazz and blues singer and pianist starting in the 1910s with her brother, bandleader George Lee. Description of her life and career, singing risque lyrics and staying in Kansas City through the 1930s after the departure of most other prominent musicians with the end of the Pendergast machine. Also "filmed here in Kansas City in 1957" in the movie "The Delinquents" with the Bill Nolan Trio by producer Elmer Rhoden.
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Date
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1960-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
