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Kansas City was a beehive of jam sessions; you could find a jam session at almost any hour of the day. The young musicians could be found jamming at the Union during the day. The unemployed musicians were to be found at night jamming at different clubs just to keep in shape to be ready when they did find a job, then at night the pros took over after they had finished their work in various clubs. Many of the pro sessions would begin about six in the morning and go on till eleven o’clock before the guys would stop to have breakfast. Then they’d go home to bed, just in time to wake up and go to their regular jobs.
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© 1986 Buck Clayton
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Clayton, B. (1986). Basie. In: Buck Clayton’s Jazz World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08727-3_6
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