About Kansas City’s Wild Jazz Club, The Chesterfield Club

It was the wild, raucous “anything goes” heyday of Kansas City, Missouri in the 1920s – 40s. Jazz flowed as freely as the booze, even during prohibition, and the many downtown clubs offered gambling, sex and drugs — so long as everybody paid Boss Pendergast.  Among the many famous and infamous bars & establishments, The … Continue reading About Kansas City’s Wild Jazz Club, The Chesterfield Club