New Museum Jazzes Up Kansas City
The Kansas City Jazz Museum, touted as the biggest U.S. museum on the topic, opened this weekend in that Missouri city’s 18th & Vine District, where Louis Armstrong, Charlie “Bird” Parker, Ella Fitzgerald and other greats performed in the area’s 1920s-40s heyday.
The museum, which will draw on more than 2,500 artifacts, including native son Parker’s acrylic saxophone, has its own live jazz club, the Blue Room. It shares a new, 55,200-square-foot building with a visitors center and with an expanded Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, opening in November.
The projects, under way for eight years, cap restoration of the commercial center of the nine-block, mainly African American district. The jazz museum is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. Sunday and closed Monday. Adult admission is $6. Information: (816) 871-3016.
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