Oct 01, 1979
90 min
Full-HD

The Last Of The Blue Devils - The Kansas City Jazz Story (1979)

Documentary film detailing the history of Kansas City jazz.

Category

Music Documentary

Country

Companies

Count Basie

Self

Big Joe Turner

Self

Dizzy Gillespie

Self (archive footage)

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