Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
6:00pm @ Plaza Branch
The Marr Sound Archives’ Chuck Haddix discusses the city’s contribution to this most American of musical forms in Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop at the annual meeting and party of the Friends of the Kansas City Public Library.
Haddix is one of the leading authorities on the subject, having authored biographies of local jazz players Jay McShann and Claude “Fiddler” Williams, the section on Kansas City jazz in the New Grove Dictionary of Music, and (with Frank Driggs) Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop.
Please contact the Friends of the Kansas City Public Library at kclibraryfriends@gmail.com or 816.701.3468 to RSVP for this event. A Friends membership is required to attend and may be purchased either in advance or at the door.
