Bennie Moten: Kansas City Big Band Jazz Video

Bennie Moten: Kansas City Big Band Jazz Video provides a brief look at the life and music of the great jazz bandleader, Bennie Moten.

Benjamin Moten (November 13, 1893 – April 2, 1935) was an American jazz pianist and band leader born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

He led his 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. The jazz standard "Moten Swing" bears his name.