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	Jay McShann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Columbus (Jay or Hootie) McShann (born in 1909 or January 12, 1916) is an American blues and swing pianist, bandleader, and singer.
		The group disbanded when McShann was drafted into the US Army in 1944, but re-formed when he was discharged the same year.
		McShann then played in obscurity until 1969, when he became popular as a singer as well as a pianist, often performing with Claude Williams.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jay_McShann (219 words)

	NEA Jazz Masters JayMcShann
		Known professionally as Hootie, McShann is for the most part a self-taught artist, though he did attend Tuskegee Institute.
		Following his days at Tuskegee, Jay played in bands in Oklahoma and Arkansas prior to joining a trio with bassman Oliver Todd and drummer Elmer Hopkins in late 1936 in Kansas City.
		In the early 1970s and ‘80s McShann experienced a bit of a renaissance, with increased recording and performing opportunities, often with fellow Kansas Citian violinist Claude “Fiddler” Williams.
	www.iaje.org /bio.asp?ArtistID=46 (282 words)

	NPR's Jazz Profiles: Jay McShann
		McShann's big band of the 1930s and '40s delivered the hard swinging music of Kansas City imbued with foot pattin' rhythms, boogie woogie beats, and the cryin' and shoutin' blues.
		McShann drifted from the spotlight in the 1950s and '60s, but with reawakened interest in the blues in the 1970s, he staged a well-deserved comeback.
		Today, Jay McShann is still going strong, playing and singing for audiences throughout the world in both solo concert appearances and with numerous ensembles.
	www.npr.org /programs/jazzprofiles/archive/mcshann.html (491 words)

	Jay McShann - Hootie Blues
		Jay McShann is the last surviving bandleader of any significance from the Swing era.
		After the Jay McShann Orchestra was “discovered” and they came East, they recorded for Decca and had a hit with "Confessin' the Blues." Due to that success, the McShann ensemble was typecast a bit as a blues band, and some of their more modern arrangements were never recorded.
		McShann talks about his early days, including the music scenes in Oklahoma and Kansas City, funny incidents that occurred when he was an orchestra leader, and a little-known period when Dizzy Gillespie sat in regularly, right next to Charlie Parker.
	www.avrev.com /music/revs/0606/jay_mcshann_hootie_blues.shtml (752 words)

	Jay McShann - Music Downloads - Online
		Bio: The great veteran pianist Jay McShann (also known as Hootie) enjoyed a long career and it is unfair to primarily think of him as merely the leader of an orchestra that featured a young Charlie Parker.
		McShann and his band arrived in New York in February 1942 and made a strong impression, but World War II made it difficult for any new orchestras to catch on.
		Jay McShann, who recorded through the years for Onyx (the 1940 radio transcriptions), Decca, Capitol, Aladdin, Mercury, Black Lion, EmArcy, Vee Jay, Black & Blue, Master Jazz, Sackville, Sonet, Storyville, Atlantic, Swingtime, and Music Masters among others, is a vital pianist and an effective blues vocalist who keeps a classic style alive.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/121/050/43/12105043.html (378 words)

	JAM: December/January 2001 Issue: Profile - Jay McShann
		Jay McShann is, and always has been, far more than just a major player of the music that bears this city's name.
		Jay McShann's Folly Theater performance also marked the end of what must been a remarkable week for him -- a week that began with a warm, late-October sun shining down on a Monday morning crowd that had assembled to dedicate the "Jay McShann Pavilion" at 18th and Vine.
		Jay McShann has also been long associated with jazz education, performing with and encouraging young musicians as they seek to play the music they too have come to love.
	www.jazzkc.org /issues/2000-12/mcshann.html (1144 words)

	PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Jay McShann
		Jay McShann is largely self-taught as a pianist.
		Later he moved again to Kansas City (after 1950), performed in the Midwest, and from 1969 into the 1980s appeared at festivals in the USA and abroad; he often toured as the leader of a trio, which included as his sidemen Claude Williams and the drummer Paul Gunther.
		McShann is noted for his percussive piano playing, which draws on elements of the blues and boogie-woogie; he also sings the blues in a nasal style reminiscent of that of Brown.
	www.pbs.org /jazz/biography/artist_id_mcshann_jay.htm (328 words)

	Jazz Artists Jay McShann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		James Columbus ('Hootie') McShann was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma on January 12th 1909.
		When Kansas city nightlife slowed down Jay moved to Chicago in 1939 and then spent some time in the Army after which he reformed his band and worked on the West Coast.
		McShann is well known for his latter-day blues singing and his compelling solo piano playing with an indefinable blend of blues, boogie, a little bit of Basie and Earl Hines.
	www.jazzcanadiana.on.ca /_MCSHANN.htm (201 words)

	SoundStage! Jay McShann - Goin' to Kansas City
		McShann, born in Muskogee Oklahoma, made his name as a blues and jazz musician in Kansas City.
		This recording is a distillation of everything McShann has learned playing music over the course of his 87 years.
		It also allows McShann to revisit some of his favorite songs, which he’s played for more years than he probably cares to remember, and re-record them in far better sound than he’s used to being given.
	www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev555.htm (560 words)

	An Interview with Jay McShann
		Jay McShann is one of the true living legends of jazz.
		Jay was drafted in 1943, and when left the army in 1945, the big-band era was on the decline, and dance halls were being turned into bowling alleys.
		Jay McShann was first exposed to blues when he heard a recording by James P. Johnson as a child.
	www.colindavey.com /BoogieWoogie/articles/jmi.htm (2989 words)

	Jay McShann: Goin' to Kansas City - PopMatters Music Review
		Jay McShann's enjoyment and appreciation of what he does, which is cook up some great jazz and blues, is infectious.
		McShann cut a record, his first hit, as a young man in the early '40s called "Confessin' the Blues" with a group that included a young Charlie Parker, one of the two progenitors of bebop (the other being Dizzy Gillespie).
		McShann and band members sizzle on this one, so much so that the listener seriously begins to wonder if McShann is lying about his age.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/m/mcshannjay-goin.shtml (599 words)

	Jay McShann Interview Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Jay "Hootie" McShann began his music career at the age of fifteen with the encouragement of Don Byas, playing small clubs, dances, and parties in the early 1930's.
		Jay moved to Kansas City in 1936, arguably the center of the universe for jazz and blues at the time.
		Jay has continued on with his passion and love of music over the years lecturing at colleges and universities around the country.
	www.mnblues.com /review/jaymcshann-intv-mec.html (2651 words)

	Jay McShann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Sometime in the later 1940s McShann started to lead small groups Jimmy Witherspoon ; Witherspoon started recording with McShann in McShann then played in obscurity until 1969 he became popular as a singer as as a pianist often performing with Claude He continued recording and touring until the 1990s.
		Long before Hootie and The Blowfish appeared on the scene in 1994 another Hootie was thrilling audiences with his blend of boogie woogie jump tunes, jazz, and pure blues.
		Jay McShann, born in 1916 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, is today rightly regarded as one...
	www.freeglossary.com /Jay_McShann (248 words)

	Club Kaycee -- Kansas City Jazz History -- McShann, James Columbus "Jay"
		The Jay McShann Orchestra toured extensively and recorded for the Decca label in 1941.
		Jay served in the armed forces in 1944.
		Jay returned to Kansas City in 1950, studied at the Conservatory of Music, and toured regionally with his trio and small groups.
	www.umkc.edu /orgs/kcjazz/jazzfolk/mcshj_00.htm (273 words)

	Jazz by Mail - Jay McShann
		The great veteran pianist Jay McShann (also known as Hootie) has had a long career and it is unfair to primarily think of him as merely the leader of an orchestra that featured a young Charlie Parker.
		Jay McShann is one of Kansas City's great treasures, and this disc brings him back to his...
		Jay McShann is the King of Kansas City jazz, swing, blues, and randb - and this CD featuring...
	www.jazzbymail.com /artists/mcshann.html (297 words)

	Jay McShann & Charlie Parker - Earliest Bird: Music-Hills.com
		This is a collection features a number of air checks (recordings of radio broadcasts) from 1940 and 1941 as the Jay McShann Orchestra with its chief soloist and sax section leader Charlie Parker, toured the country.
		McShann has said that Parker was very strict with his players.
		BTW Now (2004) in his mid-90,s Jay McShann is still singing the blues, still playing piano, and still inspiring all the good vibes that you hear on this CD.
	www.music-hills.com /Jay-McShann-Charlie-Parker/Earliest-Bird-B00005RGKF.htm (657 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Jay McShann
		Walter Frederick Brown (born July 28, 1926) was the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party USA in 2004.
		Jay was elected to the Kansas City Hall of Fame in 1971 and March 3, 1979 was declared "Jay McShann Day" in Missouri by a proclamation from the Governor's Office.
		Jay was the subject of a documentary film Hootie Blues (1978), and he is also showcased in the film, Last of the Blues Devils.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jay-McShann (705 words)

	LivinBlues- Jay McShann
		James Columbus McShann was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, January 12/ 1916.
		Jay McShann is a Blues force of nature that keeps rolling on.
		Jay McShann was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame in 1987 and received the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Pioneer Award in 1996.
	www.livinblues.com /bluesrooms/jaymcshann.asp (312 words)

	Jay McShann - Goin’ To Kansas City :: eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net :: Jazz News Daily
		Given Jay McShann’s age — he was born in 1916 —this project could reasonably be viewed as a summing up.
		Jay was, after all, a seminal figure in the birth of Kansas City-style blues/jazz.
		True, there are signs Jay’s finally beginning to slow down just a bit — there’s just a bit less fluidity in his fingers now, and his voice has seen a lot of use over the years — but one has to listen hard to hear them.
	www.ejazznews.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1971 (633 words)

	Jay McShann \| Hootie Blues
		Okay, it is true that ninety-year-old legend Jay McShann was only 85 when he recorded this live album in early 2001 at the Montreal Bistro in Toronto, intending it for broadcast on CBC Radio.
		McShann (aka Hootie) is a Kansas product who made his name in Wichita and Kansas City in the 1930s and is likely the only survivor of those days.
		McShann's partial success during the war years evolved into several decades of inactivity, and when he started recording in the mid-'60s, his skills as a blues pianist (and at that time, a singer) began a revived career.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=22700 (429 words)

	Jay McShann CD Review
		It's hard to believe, but it was 60 years ago that the Jay McShann Orchestra was attracting such young turks as Charlie Parker to the KC scene, mixing together blues, jazz and swing idioms, while also setting the table for the coming bebop revolution.
		Jay's voice is one of the most graceful and distinctive in blues history.
		Jay's memory proves to be as sharp as his musical gifts, and his insights and recollections are absolutely riveting-and extremely funny.
	www.mnblues.com /cdreview/2003/jaymcshann-kc-gt.html (754 words)

	Jazz \| All About Jazz
		McShann's recording of "Hootie blues" was the first recording to document Parker's emerging genius.
		McShann returned to Kansas City in 1950, studied at the Conservatory of Music, and toured regionally with his trio and small groups for two decades.
		McShann is known for his blues and boogie-influenced percussive piano style, but he is a master of all jazz piano styles.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /bios/jxmbio.htm (492 words)

	Jay McShann - Verve Records
		The full orchestra recorded for Decca on two occasions during 1941-42 but they were typecast as a blues band and did not get to record many of their more challenging charts (although very rare broadcasts have since surfaced and been released on CD by Vintage Jazz Classics).
		After being discharged later in 1944, McShann briefly reformed his group but soon moved to Los Angeles where he led combos for the next few years; his main attraction was the young singer Jimmy Witherspoon.
		Jay McShann, who has recorded through the years for Onyx (the 1940 radio transcriptions), Decca, Capitol, Aladdin, Mercury, Black Lion, EmArcy, Vee Jay, Black and Blue, Master Jazz, Sackville, Sonet, Storyville, Atlantic, Swingtime and Music Masters among others, is a vital pianist and an effective blues vocalist who keeps a classic style alive.
	www.vervemusicgroup.com /artist.aspx?ob=rnd&src=rslt&aid=6107 (409 words)

	Experience Kansas City - Jay McShann Warm jazz and blues album
		Jay McShann is known for his blues and boogie-influenced percussive piano style, but he is a master of all jazz piano styles.
		McShann taught himself piano as a child, despite his parents' disapproval of his interest in music.
		McShann served in the armed forces from 1943 to 1944.
	www.experiencekc.com /warm.html (789 words)

	jay-mcshann Mp3 Albums Review
		Jay McShann typically is lumped in the "other" category of Kansas City big bands, after Basie.
		Jay McShann led the band that played the blues, the last of the great Black Swing bands to come out of Kansas City and Swing so heavy that they rocked the country.
		Jay is really a great band leader, that means an arranger and melder together of players, and probably better since he took time off from touring in the 1950s to get a degree in a music conservatory!
	www.full-albums.net /albums_review-jay-mcshann.asp (2096 words)

	Jazz by Mail - Jay McShann
		Jay McShann, from whose Kansas City orchestra altoist Charlie Parker emerged in 1940, has had a...
		At the young age of 87, Jay McShann recorded this album after the Edmonton Folk Festival.
		The team of pianist-vocalist Jay McShann and bassist Major Holley was very natural.
	www.jazzbymail.com /ViewArtist.aspx?iAID=1270&sAN=Jay+McShann (297 words)

	Jay McShann
		In this 1998 interview, Jay McShann discusses with Colin Davey how he developed his boogie woogie style in Kansas City, including the influence of Pete Johnson.
		Okay, it is true that ninety-year-old legend Jay McShann was only 85 when he recorded this live...
		Jay McShann leads a quartet of Jazz icons on this beautifully rendered Kansas City Jazz CD.
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Jay_McShann (330 words)

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