Jay McShann & His Band - Kicks / Cover-Up flac album

McShann moved to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1936, and set up his own big band, which variously featured Charlie Parker (1937–42), Al Hibbler, Ben Webster, Paul Quinichette, Bernard Anderson, Gene Ramey, Jimmy Coe, Gus Johnson (1938–43), Harold "Doc" West, Earl Coleman, Walter Brown, and Jimmy Witherspoon, among others. His first recordings were all with Charlie Parker, the first as the Jay McShann Orchestra on August 9, 1940. The band played both swing and blues numbers but played blues on most of its records; its most popular recording was "Confessin' the Blues". The Rolling Stones recorded a cover version of "Confessin' the Blues" on their album Five by Five (1964). The song was written by McShann and Walter Brown in the 1940s.

Jay McShann Kicks (Scotty Can Blow). Jay McShann & His Orchestra Cover Up. (play).

New World Records is a record label that was established in 1975 through a Rockefeller Foundation grant to celebrate America's bicentennial (1976) by producing a 100-LP anthology, with American music from many genres. He played with Jay McShann, Louis Jordan, and Henry Red Allen before being hired by Count Basie specifically to replace Young in his band. He is featured on some of Dinah Washington's best work recorded in 1952–54. He recorded many small combo dates, including sessions with Young, Charlie Rouse and later with John Coltrane.

Jay McShann (January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006) was a jump blues, jazz, and swing bandleader, pianist and singer. During the 1940s, McShann was at the forefront of blues and swing jazz musicians mainly from Kansas City. He assembled his own big band, with musicians that included some of the most influential artists of their time, including Charlie Parker, Bernard Anderson, Ben Webster and Walter Brown. His kind of music became known as "the Kansas City sound" McShann died on December 7, 2006, at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City.

American jazz pianist, singer, band leader and composer in Kansas City in the 1930s and '40s, best known as the band leader who helped launch the career of Charlie Parker. Born : January 12, 1916 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Died : December 07, 2006 in Kansas City, Missouri.

Blues from Kansas City. The result is as complete a musical picture of Jay McShann's early piano style and his orchestra (at least how they sounded in the studios) as is possible. Altoist Charlie Parker has five influential if brief solos (best is "Sepian Bounce") and trumpeters Orville Minor and Buddy Anderson, altoist John Jackson, and Paul Quinichette on tenor also have their spots.

Jay Hootie McShann recording Warm in 1996. Milt Abel on bass in the background. When McShann brought his band to New York City in 1942, it featured a saxophonist named Charlie Parker. Yes THAT Charlie Parker! McShann's group easily moved from blues to jazz in their repertoire, but, blues was their backbone. Featured from Steve's Record Box is his album, "Last of the Blue Devils", released in 1978 on Atlantic Records. Let's get this party started with "Blue Devil Jump". Listen for McShann's rare electric piano runs. Songwriter Paul Quinichette plays sax in Hootie's band