The photo of Jay McShann on the album cover for 'Live in Tokyo.' At 74 years old, Kansas City pianist Jay McShann was still performing the joyous music that had entertained audiences around the world ...

Kansas City, Mo. ? Jay McShann, an internationally recognized giant of Kansas City jazz, died Thursday. Books, official records and other sources disagree on his date of birth, but he was thought to ...

Known as "Hootie" to his friends, bluesman supreme Jay McShann served as the living legacy of Kansas City jazz. As a bandleader, pianist, singer and composer, McShann was an unsung yet influential ...

This is FRESH AIR. Let's get back to our 30th anniversary retrospective. We return again to 1987 for this interview with Jay McShann, who was considered the last of the great Kansas City pianists. It ...

Pianist Jay "Hootie" McShann was one of the legends of the Kansas City jazz scene. Born in Muskogee, Okla., in 1916, McShann picked up the piano as a young boy, following his older sister to her piano ...

Okay, it is true that ninety-year-old legend Jay McShann was only 85 when he recorded this live album in early 2001 at the Montreal Bistro in Toronto, intending it for broadcast on CBC Radio. But I ...

Jay McShann, one of the grand old warriors of jazz, died of a lung ailment Dec. 7 in Kansas City, Mo., where he devised his unique blend of boogie woogie, blues and jazz that helped form the ...

For roughly 90 minutes Tuesday evening, it seemed as if the musical clock had been turned back to about 1937, when a young pianist named Jay McShann was raising sparks in any number of Kansas City ...

"Hootie" to his friends, bluesman supreme Jay McShann served as the living legacy to Kansas City jazz. As bandleader, pianist, singer and... Jay 'Hootie' McShann: Kansas City Swingman Known as "Hootie ...

Jay McShann, one of the grand old warriors of jazz, died of a lung ailment Dec. 7 in Kansas City, Mo., where he devised his unique blend of boogie woogie, blues and jazz that helped form the ...