"Moten Swing," Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1932)
"Moten Swing," Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1932)
The Dunand doors are sophisticated, elegant, and massive. “Moten Swing” in many ways defines the emerging sounds coming out of Kansas City, but was recorded in Camden, New Jersey. The recording...
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The Dunand doors are sophisticated, elegant, and massive. “Moten Swing” in many ways defines the emerging sounds coming out of Kansas City, but was recorded in Camden, New Jersey. The recording features Count Basie and Walter Page. Much like a door swinging open and shut, Moten Swing is also the beginnings of a looser rhythmic feel in jazz. Text by James Saltzman, Faculty, Manhattan School of Music
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- Door With Handle (France)
- carved, joined, and lacquered wood, eggshell, mother-of-pearl, gold leaf,....
- Gift of Mrs. Solomon R. Guggenheim.
- 1950-104-1
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
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