Jay McShann quickly established himself as a dominant Kansas City pianist in the early 1930s, his only rivals at the time were, Mary Lou Williams and Count Basie. McShann was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on January 12, 1916. Muskogee. During the 1940s, McShann was at the forefront of blues and hard bop jazz musicians mainly […]
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