Photos and article about the Kansas City Jazz Museum, or "the American Jazz Museum and Negro Leagues Baseball Museum" at the 18th & Vine District in Kansas City. Description of the history of Kansas City style jazz from the 1920s and 1930s and many of its musicians (Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Bennie Moten, et al.) and sites at the museum and related facilities such as the Gem Theater, the Blue Room night club, the Charlie Parker Memorial, and the Mutual Musicians Foundation, etc.
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