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Savvy travelers know that the Kansas City music scene has a not-so-hidden wealth of destinations worth visiting. The barbecue-loving, middle-of-the-map metropolis has grown into a buzzing live music hotspot that is also known the world over for its storied place in jazz history.
The Blue Room set to reopen June 4
and last updated 2021-06-03 09:18:30-04
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â The pandemic forced the Blue Room at the American Jazz Museum to close. Now, the club is making a comeback.
The Blue Room will reopen Friday, June 4, after being closed since March 2020. This is the living part of the art. Being a museum, we re looking at the roots and influences, but this is a place where you can see it in action, Rashida Phillips, executive director of the American Jazz Museum said.
The museum reopened in June 2020, but for over a year live entertainment was not an option at the club located in the historic 18th and Vine District.
Charlie Parker, a Kansas City native, pioneered the style of jazz known as bebop.
One of his saxophones, a cream-colored plastic instrument made in England, is now on view in an exhibition at EPCOT at Walt Disney World called “The Soul of Jazz: An American Adventure.”
When it returns in August, in time for a celebration of Parker’s 101
st birthday, officials hope to have raised $101,000. That goal was announced Friday at the American Jazz Museum as part of a new initiative called “In the Yard” a nod to Parker’s nickname of Bird, or Yardbird. Jazz endures. Jazz, baseball and barbecue, said jazz museum executive director Rashida Phillips, who took on the role in January 2020. That s Kansas City s identity. And if we don t know it, who will?
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