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The museum preserves the history of American jazz music, especially Kansas City jazz music, with exhibits including Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald Big Joe Turner, Thelonious Monk, and Etta James. The Blue Room is a jazz club which holds live performances multiple nights each week. [1] [2] [3] The museum also ...
Irish and Irish-American community, culture, history, and heritage in the greater Kansas City area and region Kansas City Museum: Northeast: Multiple: History, natural history, art Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art: Southmoreland: Art: Works created after the 1913 Armory Show to works by present-day artists Missouri Quilt Museum North Quilting ...
The 18th and Vine neighborhood includes the Mutual Musicians Foundation, the Gem Theater, the long-time offices of African-American newspaper The Call, the Blue Room jazz club, the American Jazz Museum, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Smaxx Restaurant, a restaurant inside the Juke House and Blues Club, and several apartments and condos. The ...
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 ...
Almost every jazz history depicts Kansas City jazz as a fertile ground for the development of big bands, virtuosic performances, and legendary performers. [3] In the 1920s was a Great Migration from the south and the search for musical work in Kansas City, Missouri, [4] where the Black population rose from 23,500 to 42,000 between 1912 and 1940.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York City, New York; Jazz Bridge, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Jazz Foundation of America, New York City, New York; Jazz House Kids, Montclair, New Jersey
After breaking ground in the Spring of 2022, a new six-story, $26 million apartment complex is nearing completion at 1901 Vine St., in the Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District.