Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orch. Top Songs Greatest Hits and Chart Singles Discography

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. == Career == Moten started making music... [more on Wikipedia]

Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orch. began charting in 1944 with South.The artist placed 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100.