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"Kansas City Shuffle" is a tune by jazz pianist Bennie Moten. It was recorded by his jazz band "Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra" on 13 December 1926 in Chicago, Illinois and originally released by Victor Records on Victor 20406, the flip side being "Harmony Blues" by the same band. The recording is an instrumental. The tune structure is similar to the standard "Sister Kate". After a short piano introduction, the band plays 2 ensemble choruses with breaks by trumpeter Lammar Wright. This is followed by solos by banjo and saxophone, a stop time chorus featuring unison work by the reeds, trombone solo, and finally out chorus ensemble. The title of the tune refers to an advanced form of confidence game employing misdirection, subterfuge, and playing on the "mark's" arrogance and/or self-loathing. ==The scheme== In order for a confidence game to be a "Kansas City Shuffle", or better known as, "The Cleveland Switcheroo", the mark must be aware that he is involved in a con, but also be wrong about how the con artist is planning to deceive him. The con artist will attempt to misdirect the mark in a way that leaves him with the impression that he has figured out the game and has the knowledge necessary to outsmart the con artist, but by attempting to retaliate, the mark unwittingly performs an action that helps the con artist to further the scheme. The title refers to a situation where the con man bets the mark money he can't identify what state "Kansas City" is in. The mark, guessing that the conman was hoping to trick him into saying Kansas, identifies Kansas City, Missouri as his answer. The con man then reveals that there is a much less well-known Kansas City, Kansas meaning Kansas was actually the correct answer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kansas City Shuffle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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