Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Confirmation: Weekly News & Notes
*Cheptoo Kositany-Buckner of the American Jazz Museum, vocalist Deborah Brown and the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra are featured in a Polish publication.
*Kansas City drummer Jerry Pollock was interviewed by Joe Dimino.
*Joe Klopus surveys the week in jazz for The Kansas City Star.
*A television reporter informs viewers of today’s legislative meeting regarding the direction of the beleaguered American Jazz Museum.
*Tweet o’ the Week: American Jazz Museum- OTD in 1953, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach made history by recording the live jazz album, The Quintet-Jazz at Massey Hall, in Toronto. Stop by AJM to pay tribute to Charlie Parker’s Grafton saxophone played on this historic day!
(Original image by Plastic Sax.)
Cheptoo is now history with The American Jazz Museum. Perhaps she'll come crawling back here to the library.
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