November 2002Tin Pan Alley KatzInexplicably omitted from Ken Burns' monumental "Jazz" series was a little group that made the uneasy transition from Ragtime to Jazz in an unlikely area of the Midwest, creating their own distinctive genre in the process. Kansas City had its Kansas City Sound, Chicago had the Chicago School, and Peoria, Illinois... well, Peoria had the Tin Pan Alley Katz... |
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