Airports - A New Dimension of Networking. The evolution of Airports from individual players to alliances

He started with the traditional sound of the Dixieland groups but expanded the group starting in the middle of the decade - to create more sonority he added reeds to his sax section and had expanded to 3 trumpets and 2 trombones as early as 1931. This is the band that Count Basie ‘inherited’. Basie was stranded in Kansas City and joined the Moten Band. He left to form his own group and took many of Moten’s players with him. Moten died just as this was happening and Basie in effect took over the rest of Moten’s organization. But, Moten and Basie were not the only K.C. based bands - Andy Kirk (with Mary Lou Williams) and Walter Page among others were based here. The years 1924 - 1929 was to my mind a true transition period. The new Fletcher Henderson Band Count Basie Bennie Moten technologies of the phonograph, radio (by 1925, 563 Radio stations had been licensed), microphone, talking pictures, and the jukebox had great effect on the spread and popularity of Jazz. The big dance bands were influenced by the new music, provided employment for jazz players, brought jazz ‘flavors’ to the general public, and were a start for the evolution to Swing ...»