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The Evan Moore Quartet: Little Rock, March 5, 2011

by C. Michael Bailey
March 18, 2011

The Evan Moore Quartet Featuring Brittany CampbellJerry B'sLittle Rock, ArkansasMarch 5, 2011 Few will mistake Little Rock, Arkansas for a jazz mecca. The city was not the jazz hotbed that Kansas City and Memphis were. but that does not mean that there is no jazz in the city. In the 1920s and '30s, during the heyday of Jim Crow in the 20th Century, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jay McShann, Earl Hines, Ray Charles and ...