MCSHANN, JAY

McSHANN, JAY (HOOTIE). Jazz bandleader. (12 January 1909 in Muskogee, Oklahoma). As a child he played piano. He attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee (but stayed only two months), and Winfield College in Kansas. He played with various groups in the Southwest, including Eddie Hill , then settled in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1937. After playing in local nightclubs for a period, he organized his own group, which included Charlie Parker among others. For the next four decades...