Amazonより Kansas City in the 1930s was a wild wide-open place. Under political boss Tom Pendergast the booze flowed freely prostitution and gambling flourished and the Depression pretty much passed the city by making it an ideal spawning ground for some great music. Pianist-bandleader Count Basie saxophone immortals Lester Young and Charlie Parker and blues belters Big Joe Turner and Jimmy Rushing were all working there along with a host of lesser- known but equally formidable musicians