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Homestead Grays Negro League Baseball Team, 1913 “Satchel Paige was the best and fastest pitcher I’ve ever faced.” –-Joe DiMaggio, recalling the time he faced Paige as part of his tryout for major league baseball. DiMaggio went 1 for 5 against Paige. “The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class [...]
Located in Kansas City’s Historic 18th and Vine Historic District, the Blue Room is part jazz club and part museum. Part of the adjoining American Jazz Museum, the venue features a mixture of local, home-grown musicians and national headliners fill the stage six days a week. No smoking and no food service, but, fortunately, one can find [...]
The building that currently houses Kansas City’s Gem Theatre was originally built in 1912 as a silent film movie house named the Star Theatre that catered primarily to African American audiences. It was renamed the Gem Theatre in 1923 after its owners remodeled its exterior to give it more curb appeal. The Gem continued to [...]
Photo (L-R): Blue Room Jazz Club, Negro League Baseball Museum Along with New Orleans’s Basin Street, Beale Street in Memphis, 52nd Street in New York and Los Angeles’s Central Avenue, the intersection of 18th and Vine is one of the most famous street corners in the world…….the birthplace of Kansas City Jazz. The 18th and Vine [...]
Ribs, sandwiches, loose meat, brisket, if it’s barbecue you’re after, you’re in the right place! Always on any top-10 list of the greatest barbecue joints in the nation, Arthur Bryant’s Barbeque has been serving up slabs of slow cooked pork and beef at this location since the 1958. Arthur Bryant’s has never strayed far from [...]
View of the Rose Room at the Street Hotel, Kansas City, MO Often considered as a potential rival to the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, the Black Archives of Mid America boasts one of the largest collections of African-American [...]
Part of the cultural restoration of the historic 18th and Vine District, the epicenter of Kansas City Jazz, past and present, the statue, titled “Bird Lives,” honors Kansas City native Charlie Parker, one of the greatest jazz musicians, along with other pioneers such as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Parker played leading role in the development [...]
Located across the border in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the Buffalo Soldiers Monument was dedicated by General Colin Powell in 1992. The monument honors the 9th and 10th Cavalry comprised of African American Soldiers, formed in 1866. These troopers proved their bravery and valor throughout the Indian Wars, winning the respect of the Cheyenne warriors who named [...]
Located in the historic 18th & Vine district of Kansas City, Missouri, the American Jazz Museum showcases the life works of Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzergerald, Louis Armstrong and other jazz greats. Visit the museum’s official website for more information on current and upcoming exhibitions, concerts and other events. Address: 16161 E. 18th Street, Kansas [...]
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