"Driggs/Haddix's successful condensation of a huge volume of material into a readable narrative is a mirror image of Daniels's efforts to stretch limited amounts of information to book length.
Kansas City Jazz is the publication we have been waiting for from Driggs, and Haddix's contribution has make it even more valuable than might have been expected."–Brian Priestly,
Jazz Perspectives"The strength of
Kansas City Jazz lies in its exhaustive mapping of Kansas City culture and its musicians.... The authors' years of work as collectors and archivists have resulted in a book that is indispensable for Midwest jazz studies, telling this story vividly and with thorough documentation."–Marc Rice,
Journal of the Society for American Music"[A] successful condensation of a huge volume of material into a readable narrative
Kansas City Jazz is the publication we have been waiting for from Driggs, and Haddix's contribution has made it even more valuable than might have been expected."–
Jazz Perspectives