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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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Date
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2006-06-16
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Jazz, Kansas City-Style: The Beat Goes On
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Description
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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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Date
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2001-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Jazz Museum
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Description
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Information on the Kansas City Jazz Museum in the 18th & Vine District, opening in the late 1990s and called "the fist jazz museum in the world," with photos.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Lest We Forget
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Description
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Review of a group show at the Kansas City Jazz Museum (later renamed the American Jazz Museum).
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Date
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1999-04-08
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Museum Is Missing KC Jazz
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Description
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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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Date
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2004-07-05
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Museums
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Description
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File contains information about museums in Kansas City, including the Kansas City Jazz Museum and the Minority Museum.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Notes on Film
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Description
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Review of an exhibit, "The Fine Art of Kansas City Jazz," by photographer Dan White. Shown at the American Jazz Museum in 2006, White's photographs of Kansas City jazz musicians include images of Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Diane "Mama" Ray, Jay McShann, Queen Bey, Sonny Kenner, Milt Abel, and Eddie Saunders.
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Date
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2006-04-27
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Object Type
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Newsletter Article
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Title
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Q & A with Juanita Moore
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Description
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Interview with Juanita Moore, Interim Director of the Kansas City Jazz Museum in the Spring of 2002. Moore discusses the leadership of outgoing Director Rowena Stewart, and her vision for the future of the 18th and Vine District.
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Date
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2002-06
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
