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Bennie Moten (13 Nov 1893 - 02 Apr 1935)

Male Person - United States jazz pianist

 Also known as (1)

Releases (3)

Official

Album - Compilation

  1. The Complete Bennie Moten Vol. 1/2 (1926-1928) 1979
  2. Moten Swing 2005
  3. The Bennie Moten Collection: 1923-32 2016

Relationships (5)

Member Of

  1. Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra original, piano
  2. Bennie Moten and His Orchestra original, piano
  3. Hot Lips Page and His Orchestra
  4. Charlie Shavers’ Sextet trombone
  5. Ben Webster and His Orchestra

Recordings by (57)

  1. Thick Lip Stomp 2:48 (1979)
  2. Harmony Blues 3:30 (1979)
  3. Kansas City Shuffle 2:47 (1979)
  4. Yazoo Blues 2:43 (1979)
  5. White Lightnin' Blues 3:30 (1979)
  6. Muscle Shoals Blues 3:23 (1979)
  7. Midnight Blues 2:57 (1979)
  8. Missouri Wobble 3:07 (1979)
  9. Sugar 2:47 (1979)
  10. Dear Heart 3:11 (1979)
  11. The New Tulsa Blues 3:03 (1979)
  12. Baby Dear 3:01 (1979)
  13. Twelfth Street Rag 3:19 (1979)
  14. Pass Out Lightly 3:05 (1979)
  15. Ding Dong Blues 3:10 (1979)
  16. Moten Stomp 2:56 (1979)
  17. Justrite 2:40 (1979)
  18. Slow Motion 2:36 (1979)
  19. Tough Breaks 2:51 (1979)
  20. It's Hard To Laugh Or Smile 2:41 (1979)
  21. Sad Man Blues 3:17 (1979)
  22. Kansas City Breakdawn 2:53 (1979)
  23. Trouble In Mind 3:06 (1979)
  24. Hot Water Blues 2:30 (1979)
  25. Get Low Down Blues 2:56 (1979)
  26. South 2:33 (1992)
  27. Somebody Stole My Gal 3:08 (14 Jul 1995)
  28. That Too, Do 3:21 (1998)
  29. Moten Swing 3:25 (1998)
  30. New Moten Stomp 2:54 (29 Aug 2005)
  31. As Long as I Love You 3:12 (29 Aug 2005)
  32. When I'm Alone 3:16 (29 Aug 2005)
  33. Professor Hot Stuff 3:23 (29 Aug 2005)
  34. Get Goin' (Get Ready to Love) 3:01 (29 Aug 2005)
  35. The Count 3:12 (29 Aug 2005)
  36. Liza Lee 3:03 (29 Aug 2005)
  37. Now That I Need You 3:02 (29 Aug 2005)
  38. Bouncin' Round 3:09 (29 Aug 2005)
  39. I Wanna Be Around My Baby All the Time 2:55 (29 Aug 2005)
  40. Ya Got Love 3:15 (29 Aug 2005)
  41. Elephant's Wobble 3:09 (2005)
  42. Midnight Mama 2:58 (2005)
  43. Ding-Dong Blues 3:11 (2005)
  44. Kansas City Breakdown 2:59 (2005)
  45. Let's Get It 3:20 (2005)
  46. Moten Blues 3:02 (2005)
  47. Jones Law Blues 3:07 (2005)
  48. Band Box Shuffle 2:33 (2005)
  49. Small Black 3:21 (2005)
  50. New Vine Street Blues 2:58 (2005)
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On Recordings (50)

Conducted

  1. Moten Swing 3:26 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1973)

Instruments

  1. Dark Eyes 4:22 Charlie Shavers (1955) trombone
  2. Echoes of Harlem ?:?? Charlie Shavers (1955) trombone
  3. Cheribiribin ?:?? Charlie Shavers (1955) trombone
  4. And the Angels Sing ?:?? Charlie Shavers (1955) trombone
  5. Young Man With a Horn ?:?? Charlie Shavers (1955) trombone
  6. Moten Swing 6:12 Charlie Shavers (1955) trombone
  7. Desert Dawn 3:37 Charlie Shavers (1955) trombone
  8. After You've Gone ?:?? Charlie Shavers (1955) trombone
  9. When It's Sleepy Time Down South ?:?? Charlie Shavers (1955) trombone
  10. Salt Peanuts ?:?? Charlie Shavers (1955) trombone
  11. 12th Street Rag 3:21 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  12. She's Sweeter Than Sugar 2:34 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  13. Justrite 2:42 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  14. Get Low-Down Blues 2:58 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  15. Hot Water Blues 2:32 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  16. Harmony Blues 3:33 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  17. Baby Dear 2:54 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  18. Dear Heart 3:11 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  19. Moten Blues 3:03 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  20. Kansas City Breakdown 2:54 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  21. White Lightnin' Blues 3:34 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  22. That's What I'm Talking About 3:05 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  23. Elephant's Wobble 3:07 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  24. Things Seem So Blue to Me 3:09 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano, piano
  25. South Street Blues 2:42 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  26. Kansas City Shuffle 2:48 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  27. Kater Street Rag 2:33 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  28. Muscle Shoals Blues 3:22 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  29. Let's Get It 3:18 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  30. Sister Honky Tonk 2:38 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  31. Pass Out Lightly (There Ain't Nothin' to It) 3:07 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  32. Tough Breaks 2:53 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  33. Sad Man Blues 3:19 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  34. Vine Street Blues 3:03 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  35. Ding Dong Blues 3:08 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  36. It's Hard to Laugh or Smile 2:41 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  37. Moten Stomp 2:59 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  38. Kansas City Squabble 2:50 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  39. As I Like It 2:49 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  40. Sugar 2:47 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  41. Terrific Stomp 2:40 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  42. 18th Street Strut 3:01 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  43. Crawdad Blues 2:52 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  44. Tulsa Blues 2:52 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  45. Trouble in Mind 3:08 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  46. Slow Motion 2:38 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  47. Goofy Dust 2:40 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  48. Missouri Wobble 3:09 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano
  49. She's No Trouble (Sweetheart) 3:20 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (1990) piano

Credited as (8)

  1. Bennie Moten / Henry “Red” Allen
  2. Bennie Moten
  3. Count Basie feat. Bennie Moten
  4. Bennie Moten, Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra
  5. Bennie Moten, Bennie Moten Orchestra
  6. Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra, Bennie Moten, Ben Webster, Count Basie
  7. Bennie Moten, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb
  8. Ira & Bennie Moten

Works (12)

Wrote

  1. Moten Swing

Composed

  1. Harmony Blues
  2. Thick Lip Stomp
  3. Kansas City Shuffle
  4. Yazoo Blues
  5. Elephant's Wobble
  6. As I Like It
  7. Things Seem So Blue to Me
  8. South
  9. Moten Swing
  10. Baby Dear
  11. Kater Street Rag

Links (13)

Other Databases

  1. https://d-nb.info/gnd/133151875
  2. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/104807
  3. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85031478
  4. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85031478
  5. http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w66q2gpf
  6. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb138977531
  7. https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1024118

Wikipedia

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennie_Moten

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/311057

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/27252655

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q672295

Biographies

  1. http://www.redhotjazz.com/moten.html
  2. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6826474