Articles

 

June 2021

• Our Communities Hold Water . . . Sweetened By Opportunity

 

April 2021

• Reel To Reel with Rodney Thompson

 

February 2021

• Jazz and the Black Aesthetic: Connecting Community, Blackness, and the Art of Jazz at the American Jazz Museum

 

December 2020

• Our Final Salute To The Centennial Of Legendary Saxophonist Charlie "Yardbird" Parker

 

October 2020

• Redefining Exhibition In The Days of Civil Unrest

 

August 2020

• The Symbiotic Relationship Between Jazz and Hip Hop

 

June 2020

• Soundies: Access Through The Marriage of Talent and Technology

 

April 2020

• Duke Ellington's relationship with the NAACP: celebrated and criticized

 

February 2020

• Women in Jazz 2020 - What They Want You To Know

 

December 2019

• Blue Monday Jams, Lifting The Next Generation of Jazz Greats

 

October 2019

• Meet Geri Sanders, Director of Collections

 

August 2019

• Winston Holmes: Kansas City's Unsung Entrepreneur

 

June 2019

• David Stone Martin: Jazz Visualized

 

April 2019

• Charlie Parker's Plastic Sax

 

February 2019

• Women In Jazz: Glass Ceilings Shattered . . . Now What?

 

December 2018

• The Enduring Legacy of the Jazz Age in 1950s Fashion

 

October 2018

• Making Lifelong Jazz Supporters: An Interview with Mike Warren

 

August 2018

• One Librarian's Bold Leap into Wikipedia and the Community Building that Followed

 

June 2018

• Volunteering in the Name of Jazz

 

April 2018

• Nurturing the Legacy of Kansas City Jazz

 

February 2018

• The Neon Signs of 18th & Vine

 

December 2017

• Beyond the Jazz and BBQ: The People's Journey

 

October 2017

• Hidden Treasures in the Blue Room

 

August 2017

• At home at 18th and Vine: A Conversation with Ronnie Medlock

 

June 2017

• The Legacy Plays On: The 20th Anniversary of the American Jazz Museum