text: For many years, jazz musicians in this city have participated in late night jam sessions at the Mutual Musicians Foundation.
full_question: For many years, jazz musicians in this city have participated in late night jam sessions at the Mutual Musicians Foundation. Jazz bands working in this city were known for "head arrangements" instead of sight-reading, performing frequent, elaborate riffs, and featuring "blues shouters" like Jimmy Rushing and Big Joe Turner. Jay McShann led a big band from this city, whose 18th and Vine district nurtured musicians like Charlie Parker, who grew up here. The line "They got a crazy way of lovin' out there" appears in a Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller song about this city. This city's characteristic style was developed by the Bennie Moten Orchestra, which employed Count Basie before he created his own orchestra and moved to Chicago. The jazz scene in this city took off because Prohibition was not enforced by political boss Tom Pendergast. For 10 points, name this Midwestern city, a jazz Mecca during the 1930s.
first_sentence: For many years, jazz musicians in this city have participated in late night jam sessions at the Mutual Musicians Foundation.
raw_answer: Kansas City, Missouri [do NOT accept "Kansas City, Kansas"]