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Jay McShann (born James Columbus McShann, January 12, 1916, in Muskogee, Oklahoma; died December 7, 2006, in Kansas City, Missouri) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader and singer, known as \u201cHootie.\u201d He grew up around the dance halls of Oklahoma and Kansas City, taught himself by listening to records and watching other pianists, and established himself in Kansas City in the mid-1930s, when the city was one of the busiest blues and swing centers in the country.<\/p>\n

From 1939 he led his own big band and recorded for Decca. On the 1941\u201342 sessions the alto saxophone section held a Charlie Parker still in his early twenties \u2014 Parker’s first important professional job. The band’s \u201cConfessin’ the Blues\u201d with vocalist Walter Brown became an early rhythm-and-blues classic, and McShann’s own \u201cHootie Blues\u201d stands as a signature Kansas City jump tune.<\/p>\n

After the big band broke up in the late 1940s he worked around Kansas City with small groups and spent some years outside music. The revival of the 1970s brought him back to international stages; the 1979 documentary \u201cThe Last of the Blue Devils\u201d filmed his reunion with old Basie-era colleagues, and he went on to tour Europe and Japan frequently and was still recording in the 1990s. His piano is Kansas City to the bone: a walking boogie left hand, short blues figures in the right, and a voice that carries the same ease. He received the NEA Jazz Masters award.<\/p>\n

This catalog adds \u201cMcShann’s Piano\u201d (1967, Capitol ST 2645) and \u201cThe Last of the Blue Devils\u201d (1978, Atlantic SD 8800). The first re-records his signature pieces \u2014 \u201cVine Street Boogie,\u201d \u201cMoten Swing,\u201d \u201cConfessin’ the Blues\u201d \u2014 in trio and quartet formats with guitarist Chuck Norris, electric bassist Ralph Hamilton and drummers Jesse Price and Paul Gunther. The second comes from the revival years, with Buddy Tate and Paul Quinichette on tenor saxophone, Joe Newman on trumpet, Milt Hinton on bass and John Scofield on guitar, and liner notes by Stanley Dance.<\/p>\n

Cover photograph: Billboard promotional portrait, public domain; body photograph by Phil Wight in Edinburgh, around 1995, CC BY 2.0. Both from Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n

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Jay McShann performing in Edinburgh, around 1995. Photograph by Phil Wight, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (File:Jay McShann in Edinburgh.jpg).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Standard-bearer of Kansas City jump blues: the first important bandleader Charlie Parker worked for, with a boogie left hand and a blues voice unchanged across sixty years \u2014 everyone in jazz and blues knows him as \u201cHootie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":130740,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","discogs_artist_id":"274433","artist_discogs_id":"274433","artist_spotify_id":"","artist_tier":"legendary","artist_is_featured":"1","artist_discogs_url":"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/274433","artist_spotify_url":"","spotify_artist_url":"","apple_music_url":"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/artist\/jay-mcshann\/1580099","artist_apple_music_url":"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/artist\/jay-mcshann\/1580099"},"artist_type":[2,3096],"music_genre":[582,490,485],"class_list":["post-130742","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist_type-person","artist_type-3096","music_genre-blues","music_genre-swing","music_genre-jazz"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nJay McShann - 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