The Rockets That Didn't Quite Take Off
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | The Rockets That Didn't Quite Take Off - Kansas City Jazz |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Con Chapman; Music writer; |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Popular Music |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Kansas City; Kansas City jazz; African-American music; Lester Young; Charlie Parker; The Blue Devils; Bennie Moten; Coleman Hawkins; Ben Webster; Don Byas; Andy Kirk; Harlan Leonard; Jay McShann |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | Jazz; American Jazz |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | The Kansas City Rockets, a band that was formed by trombonist Thamon Hayes but was taken over by fellow Bennie Moten alumni Harlan Leonard, is depicted as one of the missed opportunities of Kansas City jazz. Both Hayes and Leonard were dismissed from Moten’s band when Count Basie’s favored musicians replaced them, and as a result the Rockets carried a chip on their shoulders that motivated them to become respected heirs to the Kansas City “stomp” rhythm tradition. They bested Moten in a battle of the bands and had a shot at a big hit when they recorded “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire,” but their producer persuaded them to play the song in an up-tempo arrangement rather than as a tender ballad. They were also thwarted by union rules that kept them from expanding from their Kansas City base into Chicago. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 20-Mar-2023 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/42628 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.42628 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Kansas City Jazz |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
US Midwest, twentieth century |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |