Charlie Parker? Jackie Robinson? For The Star, Kansas City Black Culture Was Invisible
海角论坛's Chuck Haddix weighs-in
“They didn’t cover jazz much outside of the Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra,” Chuck Haddix, co-author with Frank Driggs of “Kansas City Jazz, From Ragtime to Bebop,” said of the two daily papers and the city’s signature white jazz orchestra. Haddix is also curator of the Marr Sound Archives at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. (subscription required)