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Title: Kansas City is Big Band Country
Description: Article profiles six big bands in Kansas City: New Vintage Big Band, New Jazz Order Big Band, Abel Ramirez Big Band, Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, People's Liberation Big Band, and Louis Neal Big Band.
Date: 2009-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: SC1-1 Joe Sanders Collection Finding Aid
Description: Joe Sanders was born in Thayer, Kansas, and spent the majority of his childhood in the Kansas City area. He started his musical performances as a boy soprano in local church choirs and graduated from Westport High School. After World War I he organized an orchestra with Carleton Coon called the Nighthawks which played on the local radio and traveled the country. After Mr. Coon's untimely death in 1932, Sanders continued as a composer, piano player, singer, and conductor of his own band. Sanders died in 1965. This collection of material, such as scrapbooks, travelogues, photos, sheet music, etc., provides information and detail about Sanders, covering his formative musical years and later successful band career. It also contains information on the relationship between Carleton Coon and Joe Sanders and the formation and travels of their band in the 1920s.
Date: 1908~/1950~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Harry Richman
Description: Autographed publicity portrait of entertainer Harry Richman. Autograph reads: "To 'Joe Sanders' from your loving bass fiddle player, Harry Richman." Richman was a singer, actor, dancer, comedian, pianist, songwriter, bandleader, and night club performer mainly during the 1920s and 1930s.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Has Been Diverse-fied
Description: Article profiles a young, up and coming Kansas City jazz band called "Diverse." The five members studied under Professor Bobby Watson at the University of Missouri--Kansas City Conservatory and include Hermon Mehari (trumpet), Will Sanders (tenor saxphone), John Brewer (piano/keyboards), Ben Leifer (bass) and Ryan Lee (drums). The band's debut performance was in 2008 at the Rhythm 'n' Ribs Jazz and Blues Festival.
Date: 2009-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Jazzing it Up
Description: The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra "is an 18-piece profesional big band, and it's run much like a symphony orchestra, with paid musicians and a season of concerts." Conductor Jim Mair hopes the band will become a community institution like the symphony and opera.
Date: 2008-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

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