Local Scenes

Jazz music has many local scenes like Cape Town, Kansas City, West Coast and last but not least, New Orleans. In Cape Town. jazz is known as Cape Jazz which is a genre of jazz music similar to the popular music style known as marabi, though more improvisational in character which is performed in the very southern part of Africa. Where marabi is a piano jazz style, in the beginning this music grew from the instruments that can be carried in a street parade such as brass instruments, banjos, guitars and percussion instruments. Kansas City Jazz is a style of jazz that developed in Kansas City, Missouri and the surrounding Kansas City Metropolitan Area during the 1930s and marked the transition from the structured big band style to the musical improvisation style of Bebop. The hard swinging, bluesy transition style is bracketed by Count Basie who in 1929 signed with the Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra and Kansas City native Charlie Parker who was to usher in the Bebop style in the 1940s. Kansas City is known as one of the most popular "cradles of jazz".