If you're a fan of music that straddles that line between jazz and blues, Jay McShann's Still Jumpin' The Blues will hit you where you live. No one epitomizes Kansas City jump better than 83-year-old ...

Jay “Hootie” McShann landed in Kansas City in the 1930s, and along with fellow pianist and bandleader Count Basie, established what came to be known as the Kansas City sound: blues rooted jazz driven ...

Jay McShann, a jazz pianist and bandleader who helped define the Kansas City jazz sound and was the first to employ saxophonist Charlie Parker, died Dec. 7 in Kansas City, Mo. He was 90.

Pianist Jay McShann was considered the last of the great Kansas City pianists. One of his sidemen was Charlie Parker.