Goin' to Kansas City is an album by American jazz trumpeter Buck Clayton with Tommy Gwaltney's Kansas City 9 featuring tracks recorded in late 1960 for the Riverside label.Riverside Records discography accessed November 7, 2012Enciclopedia del Jazz: Buck Clayton accessed June 30, 2017
Reception
Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars with the review by Scott Yanow stating, "Although the nonet performs a variety of songs associated with Kansas City Jazz of the swing era, the arrangements are modern and unpredictable".Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed November 7, 2012
Track listing "Hello Babe" (Dicky Wells) - 3:00 "An Old Manuscript" (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) - 3:26 "Kansas City Ballad" (Tommy Newsom) - 3:06 "The Jumping Blues" (Jay McShann, Charlie Parker) - 4:07 "Walter Page" (Tommy Gwaltney) - 4:27 "Midnight Mama" (Jelly Roll Morton) - 4:39 "John's Idea" (Count Basie, Eddie Durham) - 3:05 "Steppin' Pretty" (Mary Lou Williams) - 3:12 "Dedicated to You" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, Hy Zaret) - 3:34 "The New Tulsa Blues" (Bennie Moten) - 4:37
Personnel Buck Clayton - trumpet Bobby Zottola - trumpet, peck horn Dicky Wells - trombone Tommy Newsom - clarinet, tenor saxophone Tommy Gwaltney - alto saxophone, clarinet, vibraphone, xylophone John Bunch - piano Charlie Byrd - guitar Whitey Mitchell - bass Buddy Schutz - drums Technical Phil Ramone - engineer
Landmark After an urban renewal project in the 1960s, Vine Street no longer intersects 12th Street, but at the former intersection the city created the Goin' to Kansas City Plaza.
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