MISSOURI VALLEY SUNDAYS / AMERICA'S MUSIC
Sun, 04/21/2013
2:00pm @ Central Library [2]
Beginning with their regular gig in the Plantation Grill at Kansas City’s Muehlebach Hotel, the Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra in the 1920s took the Midwest, and then the entire nation, by storm. UMKC jazz expert Chuck Haddix follows the rise and fall of the band that had hit recordings like “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby,” “When You’re Smiling,” “The Flippity Flop,” “Kansas City Kitty,” “I Ain’t Got Nobody,” “Harlem Madness,” and “What A Girl! What A Night!”
Haddix is the director of UMKC’s Marr Sound Archives and creator of the long-running blues, jive, and zydeco radio show Fish Fry. He is the author of Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop – a History.
