High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 18th and Vine in Kansas City is internationally recognized as one of the cradles of jazz. Along with New Orleans`s Basin Street, Beale Street in Memphis, 52nd Street in New York City and Los Angeles`s Central Avenue - the 18th and Vine area was a midwife to the birth of a new style of jazz. Like the spicy barbecue for which Kansas City is so widely noted, the jazz that evolved in the 18th and Vine district was likewise distinctive. Simmered in the blues, Kansas City`s jazz was a riff-based sound fueled by jam sessions in the district`s crowded clubs. A list of the musicians who worked and made their home in the historic district reads like a veritable Who`s Who of Jazz in the 1930s and 1940s. Charlie Parker is likely the most noted modern jazz musician to come from Kansas City. However, many notables call the city home or got their start in this significant jazz scene.