OLD TIME JAZZ AND KANSAS CITY

After my novel, JAZZ TOWN, was published, readers wrote requesting additional information about the early days of jazz in Kansas City. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be telling some more of the  interesting facts I discovered.

For instance, before it burned down in 1878, Bucket of Blood Saloon occupied the ground floor of the Coates Hotel on Kersey Coates Drive. Formerly a stable, customers could get a bath for 10 cents, a drink for one bit (12  ½ cents) or two drinks for two bits. It was a good place to find ladies of the evening and a room for 2 bucks. Twenty people died in the fire jumping from upper floors. It remains the worst hotel fire in Kansas City history.

Watch here for more facts about jazz and  Kansas City. Add your own.  I’ll post them, too.