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Kansas City jazz is a style of jazz that developed in Kansas City, Missouri during the 1920s and 1930s, which marked the transition from the structured big band style to the much more improvisational style of bebop. The hard- swinging, bluesy transition style is bracketed by Count Basie, who in 1929 signed with Bennie Moten 's Kansas City ...
American Jazz Museum. / 39.0912832; -94.5619851. The American Jazz Museum is located in the historic 18th and Vine district of Kansas City, Missouri. The museum preserves the history of American jazz music, with exhibits on Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and others. Nested within the museum is a fully ...
Jazz historian Chuck Haddix, author of “Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker,” will host the evening, and the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra led by Clint Ashlock will perform.
The Count Basie Orchestra was founded in 1934 in Kansas City by the legendary jazz band leader William “Count” Basie. The band, with 15 to 18 members, continued after his death in 1984 and ...
18th and Vine is a neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. It is internationally recognized as a historical point of origin of jazz music and a historic hub of African-American businesses. Along with Basin Street in New Orleans, Beale Street in Memphis, 52nd Street in New York City, and Central Avenue in Los Angeles, the 18th and Vine area ...
As part of its season of “Conversations,” the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra conducted by Clint Ashlock will be joined by Henry for an autobiographical concert Feb. 9 and 10 at the Folly Theater.
The Last of the Blue Devils. The Last of the Blue Devils, subtitled The Kansas City Jazz Story, is a 1979 film documentary with notable figures from the history of Kansas City jazz starring Count Basie and Big Joe Turner. The film was produced and directed by Bruce Ricker.
Parker is a Kansas City Jazz legend and saxophonist who helped create the sub-genre of jazz known as bebop in the 1940s. The green statue is of Parker’s face, with the words “Bird Lives ...