[b]For the jazz bassist, please use [a996896][/b] [b] For the clarinet and alto saxophone player, please use [a2790670][/b] Bennie Moten (born November 13, 1893, Kansas City, Missouri, USA - died April 2, 1935, Kansas City, Missouri, USA) was an American jazz pianist, composer and band leader. He led [a317903], the most important of the regional, blues-based orchestras active in the Midwest in the 1920's, and helped to develop the riffing style that would come to define many of the 1930's Big Bands. Among his…