Bennie Moten - Bennie Moten (November 13 1894 April 2 1935) was a noted American jazz pianist and band leader born in Kansas City Missouri.He led the Kansas City Orchestra the most important of the regional blues-based orchestras active in the Midwest in the 1920s and helped to develop the riffing style that would come to define many of the 1930s Big Bands.His first recordings were made (for OKeh Records) in 1923 and were rather typical interpretations of the New Orleans style of King Oliver and others. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
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