Kansas City Stomp

"Kansas City Stomp" is a jazz standard by Jelly Roll Morton, first recorded in 1923. It has been described as "one of his (Morton's) happiest pieces". Morton was inspired in naming it after playing at a bar named "Kansas City Bar" in Tijuana.[1] It has nothing to do with Kansas City itself.[2] The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2010.[3]

  1. ^ Jasen, David A.; Jones, Gene (11 October 2013). Black Bottom Stomp: Eight Masters of Ragtime and Early Jazz. Routledge. p. 149. ISBN 978-1-135-34928-8.
  2. ^ Brown, Sterling Allen (1976). Sterling A. Brown: a UMUM tribute. Black History Museum UMUM Publishers. p. 80.
  3. ^ "Grammy Hall of Fame". Recording Academy. Retrieved 7 January 2019.