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Title
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All That Jazz--On Film In KC
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Description
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Located at the American Jazz Museum is a wonderful collection called the John Baker Film Collection. This collection contains about 700 hours of film. "Some of the holdings are full-length features, some run as short as a minute; a core of the collection are the 3,000 or so 'soundies' - the 1940s forerunner of MTV-style music videos-featuring the likes of Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Fats Waller as well as a wealth of visual evidence of African-American culture. The films span the 1920s to the early '70s." Twenty years ago the city paid John Baker a Columbus, Ohio, lawyer, $200,000 for the collection. It wasn't until 2003 that the museum received a significant grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to help to preserve the resource. The collection is known and used by jazz researchers.
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2006-06-16
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Museum Is Missing KC Jazz
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Part of "As I See It" column on the editorial page. Local musician Mike Metheny writes that he feels like 4 local jazz musicians should be included as a part of the local jazz museum. The names include trumpeter and Kansas City, Kansas native Carmell Jones (1936-1996); trombonist Bob Brookmeyer who was born in Kansas City; sax player Frank Trumbauer (1901-1956); and jazz vocalist Marilyn Maye.
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2004-07-05
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Newspaper Article
