Read Kansas City Lightning Online
Authors: Stanley Crouch
Churchill, Winston, 78
Civil War, 41, 73, 76, 125, 127, 128, 133, 140
Claxton, Rozelle, 307â10
Clayton, Buck, 205, 241
Coleman, Earl, 113
Coleman, Ermir, 193
Colman, Ronald, 244
Considering Genius
(Crouch), 123, 124
Cooper, Al, 23
Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 38â40
Cotton Club, 98â99
Crouch, Emma Bea, 63
Cullen, Countee, 78
Culliver, Freddie, 83â84
D
Daley, Joe, 327â28
Dameron, Tadd, 323â24
Daniels, Ernest, 164, 165
Dan Wall's Chili House, 294, 297, 301, 304
Daughters of the American
Revolution (DAR), 283â84
Davis, Alonzo, 83, 84, 86
Davis, Clarence, 106, 148, 163â65, 180â81, 184, 209, 226â27, 268, 310
Davis, Miles, 322
Davis, Walter, Jr., 286
Deans of Swing, 89â90, 93â94, 147, 221, 323
Dee, Jesse, 189, 191
DeFranco, Buddy, 313
Depression, Great, 6, 48â49, 55, 63, 64, 66â68, 70, 130, 142, 200â202, 239, 270
Desmond, Paul, 87
Dewey, Thomas E., 293
Dexter, Dave, 280
Diamond, John, 126, 131
Dillinger, John, 42, 63, 68, 271
Dirty Legs, 34
Dodds, Baby, 117, 119
Dodds, Johnny, 119, 138
Dooley, Fred, 89â90
Dorsey, Bob, 6â7
Dorsey, Jimmy, 156, 211, 224
Douglas, Aaron, 173
Douglas, Tommy, 62, 226â29, 243, 252, 255
Down Beat, 145, 280
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 214â16
Durant, Will, 278
Durham, Eddie, 15, 62, 141â43, 193, 197â98, 200
E
Eckstine, Billy, 100â101, 222, 278â79, 322
Edison, Harry “Sweets,” 131â32 802 Girls, 34
Eldridge, Roy, 30, 181â85, 198, 209, 224, 245, 255, 268, 291, 313
Ellington, Duke, 20, 35, 72â73, 76, 98â102, 104â5, 118, 119, 139, 279, 305â6, 323
        Parker passes up audition with, 305â7
Ellison, Ralph, 24, 80â81, 151, 194â95, 199, 210
Enois, Leonard “Lucky,” 7, 25
Estevan (slave scout), 38â39
Evans, Herschel, 27, 62, 205, 245â46, 310
F
Fields, Ernie, 307, 308
Fleet, Biddy, 297â307, 311, 314, 323, 324
Fletcher, Tom, 120â21
Floyd, Pretty Boy, 63, 66â68
Floyd, Troy, 190
Foster, Stephen, 222
Foxx, Redd, 34
Francis, Panama, 20â21, 26, 28
G
Gale, Charles, 13
Gale, Moses “Moe,” 13, 35
Gardner, Goon, 280, 291, 329
Gazzaway, Don, 187
Geraldine (paramour of Parker), 170â72, 229â30, 233, 257
Geronimo, 262
Gershwin, George, 323
Gibson, Andy, 26
Gibson, Hoot, 72
Gibson, Oswald, 315â17
Gillespie, Dizzy, 29, 34, 101, 227
Golden, Jimmy, 315
Goldin, Marie, 106, 164
Gone with the Wind
, 73, 284
Goodman, Benny, 205, 225â26
Gould, Chester, 67
Gray, Harry, 274
Great Migration, 275â77
Great Plains, The
(Webb), 40
Green, Freddie, 144
Greer, Sonny, 99, 101
Griffith, D. W., 72â75, 100, 284
H
Hamilton, Julian, 83â84
Hammond, John, 145â46, 159, 186, 204, 205, 250
Hampton, Lionel, 35, 99
Handy, W. C., 310
Hardwick, Otto, 305â6
Harlem, 12â13, 20, 28, 252, 287, 290â92, 295â96
        Cotton Club, 98â99
        Dan Wall's Chili House, 294, 297, 301, 304
       Â
Monroe's Uptown House, 18, 293â95, 301â2, 304
        Savoy Ballroom, 8â9, 13â14, 16â17, 20â35, 292
        Turf Club, 292â93
        Woodside Hotel, 12, 14â16, 18â20, 250â51, 290, 291, 307â8, 310
Harris, Benny, 308
Hawkins, Coleman, 19, 23, 24, 30, 62, 155, 159, 182â85, 198, 245, 291, 311â13, 317
Hawkins, Erskine, 35
Henderson, Fletcher, 20, 24, 159, 182, 184, 185, 198, 245, 273
Hibbler, Al, 27, 29
Hines, Earl, 273, 311
Hite, Les, 21
Hitler, Adolf, 283
Hodges, Johnny, 19, 62, 89, 224, 253, 296, 305â6
Holiday, Billie, 16, 291
Holstein, Casper, 292â93
“Hometown Blues,” 35â36
“Honeysuckle Rose,” 330â34
Hoover, J. Edgar, 66, 67
Hopkins, Elmer, 223
Horowitz, Vladimir, 184 horses, 39â40
Hughes, Langston, 78â79, 104
I
Ickes, Harold, 284
Indians, 38â41, 263
In Search of Buddy Bolden
(Marquis), 133, 134, 136
Intolerance
, 74
“I, Too” (Hughes), 78â79
J
Jackson, Andrew, 43
Jackson, Chubby, 31â32
Jackson, John, 89, 90, 155
James Boys, 63, 262
Janis, Harriet, 130, 131
jazz, 61â62, 116â17, 123, 127, 139, 156, 177, 195, 303, 325â26
        bebop, 100, 140, 227, 315
        Chicago, 117, 118, 122
        Kansas City, 69â62, 116â17, 122â23, 125, 137â46
        natural vs. trained musicians in, 241â42
        New Orleans, 117, 118, 122, 132â35, 144â45, 196
        rhythm section in, 144
Jazz from the Beginning
(Bushell), 119, 138
Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest
(Russell), 85, 139, 193â94
Johnson, Bud, 62
Johnson, Frank, 123, 125, 128
Johnson, Gus, 7, 25, 242
Johnson, Jack, 76, 96â98, 102â4, 121
Johnson, James P., 185, 309, 311
Johnson, Margaret “Countess,” 152â54
Johnson, Pete, 15, 16, 60
Jones, Buddy, 214
Jones, Jo, 141, 144, 149â50, 153, 154, 205, 306
Joplin, Scott, 130â32, 135â36
Jordan, Louis, 158
Juba, Master, 126â27, 131
Julius (neighbor), 55â56, 232
K
Kansas, 39
Kansas City, 6, 42, 52, 59â60, 67, 161, 317
        jazz style of, 69â62, 116â17, 122â23, 125, 137â46
        lawlessness in, 63â68
        as music town, 137
Kansas City Massacre, 65â67
Keith, Jimmy, 86, 94, 333
Keyes, Joe, 149
Keyes, Lawrence, 82, 84, 88, 89, 93â94, 147, 323
Kirk, Andy, 12â13, 15â16, 60, 146, 152, 159
Kolax, King, 279
Kynard, Ben, 89
L
LaGuardia, Fiorello, 287, 293
Lansky, Meyer, 293
“Laughin' Louie,” 331
Laughton, Charles, 244
Lazia, 64, 66â68
Lee, George E., 220â23
Lee, Julia, 223
Leonard, Harlan, 16, 60, 85â86, 241â43, 252, 310, 324, 328
Lewis, Ed, 241
Lindy Hoppers, 34
Lloyd, Jerry, 308
Logan, Eli, 242
Louis, Joe, 76, 95â96, 100â104, 283
Luciano, Lucky, 293
Lunceford, Jimmie, 20, 310
M
Madden, Owney, 99
Maher, Jim, 87
Marquis, Donald, 133, 134, 136
Mayfield, Edward, Jr., 83
McDaniel, Hattie, 284
McGhee, Howard, 32
McKay, Claude, 78
McNeil, Crackshot, 192
McShann, Jay “Hootie,” 7, 17, 19, 23â31, 35, 43, 203â4, 219â21, 223â26, 228, 237â43, 248, 252, 280, 292, 329
        Bales and, 237â40
        Orchestra of, 1, 8â17, 20â36, 60, 118, 248
        Parker hired by, 246â47
        Parker's meeting of, 241â43
Miley, Bubber, 145, 182
Millinder, Lucky, 9, 20â21, 26, 28, 118, 229
        Orchestra of, 9, 20, 26, 28, 32, 33, 35
Minor, Orville “Piggy,” 11, 12, 18, 27, 29, 118, 203â6, 209â11 minstrelsy, 67, 73â75, 84, 98â101, 120â21, 126â27, 130, 244
Mitchell, Razz, 23â24
Monk, Thelonious, 34
Monroe, Clark, 18, 293â94
Monroe's Uptown House, 18, 293â95, 301â2, 304
Morton, Jelly Roll, 140, 141, 283
Mosley, Snub, 242
Moten, Bennie, 62, 85, 138â40, 142â43, 149, 186, 199, 200, 202â3, 221, 241, 250
        death of, 145, 202â4
Moten, Bus, 203
Murray, Albert, 142
Music of Black Americans, The
(Southern), 123
Murray, Albert, 311
Musser, Clarence, 163â64, 167, 180, 185, 206
N
Nash, Frank “Jelly,” 65â66
Nelson, Baby Face, 63, 68
New Orleans, 271
        Black Codes in, 134â35
        jazz style of, 117, 118, 122, 132â35, 144â45, 196
New York City, 10â12, 14, 16, 139â40, 161, 287â89
        Parker's arrival in, 285â87, 289
        Smith in, 286â87, 289â91, 295â96, 301, 307
        Smith's move to, 250â52, 270
       Â
see also
Harlem
New York World's Fair, 285â86
Niza, Marcos de, 38â39
No Way Out
, 75
O
Oliver, Joe “King,” 98, 117â19, 138, 139â40, 145, 158, 272â73, 278
Oliver, Paul, 62
100 Years of the Negro in Show Business
(Fletcher), 120â21
“One O'Clock Jump,” 26, 249
Original Amateur Hour, The
, 152
Owens, Jesse, 283
P
Page, Oran “Hot Lips,” 15, 60, 62, 141â43, 145, 149, 150, 193, 200
Page, Walter, 15, 62, 85, 138, 140â41, 144, 149, 152, 192, 193, 196, 200, 202, 226
        Blue Devils of,
see
Blue Devils
Parker, Addie (mother), 43â45, 47â49, 51, 53â55, 68, 70, 76â78, 82, 83, 86â88, 92, 105â7, 148, 155, 164, 165, 167â72, 212, 214, 230â36, 247, 249, 264, 317, 318â20, 322â23
        and Charlie's leaving Kansas, 254, 318, 320
        Leon and, 318
Parker, Charlie:
        arrival in New York, 285â87, 289
        in automobile accident, 164, 212
        birth of, 42, 44
        in Chicago, 270â81
        childhood of, 43â49
        drug use of, 17â18, 30, 164, 169â71, 212â17, 227, 229â33, 235, 242, 246â48, 256, 257, 285, 304, 321â23, 328
        family background of, 42â43
        first club gigs of, 27
        moves to Chicago, 253â57, 265, 267â70
        practice schedules of, 87â88, 315
        saxophone chosen as instrument of, 82
        saxophone mouthpieces and, 228â29
        saxophone screw lost by, 146â47
        Sherlock Holmes mysteries enjoyed by, 214â16
        technological innovation as interest of, 286, 300, 304, 324â25
        westerns enjoyed by, 70â72
Parker, Charles, Sr. (father), 42â45, 48, 106, 264, 308, 318, 328
        death of, 317â18, 321
Parker, Doris (third wife), 212, 269, 270
Parker, Francis Leon (son), 232â33, 236, 244, 249, 253, 254, 256, 285, 318â22
        birth of, 231â32
Parker, John “Ikey” (half-brother), 43â46, 48, 55, 106
Parker, Peter Christopher (grandfather), 42â43, 311
Parker, Rebecca Ruffin (first wife), 50â57, 59, 63, 68â71, 76â78, 81â83, 88, 91â95, 104â9, 116, 147â48, 164â72, 185, 229â36, 244, 249, 256â57, 264, 285, 311, 318â20, 322
        Charlie divorced by, 319â20
        Charlie's leaving of, 253â56
        Charlie's marriage to, 104â5
        Charlie's visit to, 320â22
        Francis's birth and, 231â32
        Geraldine letter and, 170â72, 229â30, 233
        loss of second child, 233â36, 257, 321
       Â
move back with family, 320-22
        pregnancies of, 167, 230, 231, 233â35
Pasler, Bus, 205â6, 218
Payne, Felix, 64
Pearl Harbor, 7
Pendergast, Tom, 6, 16, 42, 59, 64, 65, 68, 161, 163, 164, 267, 293, 317
Poitier, Sidney, 75
Porter, Cole, 213, 323
Pretty Boy
(Wallis), 63
Q
Queen City Concert Band, 131
R
ragtime, 61, 123, 128â32, 135, 137 railroads,
see
trains
Ramey, Eugene Glasco, 7, 11, 21, 22, 24, 25, 30, 31, 33, 121â22, 152â55, 186, 223, 242, 246â49, 280â81, 328
Redcross, Bob, 119â20, 277â79, 329â30
Reeves, Edward, 44â46, 48, 50, 64â65, 87
Reisner, Robert, 47, 82, 83, 214, 227, 249, 308
Reno Club, 148â55, 161, 186, 204â6, 239, 249, 332
Renoir, Jean, 113, 303
Roach, Max, 325
Rodney, Red, 313
Rogers, T. D., 309
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 16, 283â84
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 8, 16, 284
Ross, James, 86, 94
Rowland, Beryl, ix
Ruffin, Daddy, 49â52, 55
Ruffin, Dorothy, 50, 53
Ruffin, Fanny “Birdy,” 49â54, 57, 59, 69â70, 76â77, 89, 91â94, 105, 230, 234, 319, 320, 322
Ruffin, Octavia, 50, 53, 77, 93â94
Ruffin, Ophelia, 50, 52, 54, 77, 91â92, 256, 322
Ruffin, Rebecca,
see
Parker, Rebecca Ruffin
Ruffin, Winfrey, 50, 53, 77, 92, 320
Rushing, Jimmy, 62, 141â43, 149, 179, 200
Russell, Ross, 85, 139, 140, 193â94, 241
S
sampling, 286
Savoy Ballroom, 8â9, 13â14, 16â17, 20â35, 292
Savoy Sultans, 23â24, 35, 301
Sax, Adolphe, 61