Jay McShann discusses his band post-war.

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Jay McShann discusses his work in the '50s and '60s.

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Jay McShann on keeping busy.

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Q: “Through the fifties and into the sixties, you kept busy working out of Kansas city then, eh? What sort of group, what sort of size – solo things or did you have a working assembly?”

A: “With one group, you know, I kept, you know, one job, you know, you get all these gigs, and stay four or five years and I stayed on one gig for five … But you know, that's too long in one place and so then I left that gig and started, you know, doing colleges and universities and things like that, you know. And then I went back to another gig there and I stayed on it about three years and that was too much, you know. That's how we passed this time away, you know what I mean? And then I started to, you know, traveling within a radius of about 600 or 700 miles of Kansas City and then before you know it, the kids are coming out of school and everything and so then I said, "Well I might as well go on and get with it now, you know."