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1. Count Basie Count Basie File containing photos and articles from various newspapers about Count Basie (1904-1984), a prominent African American jazz figure starting his career in Kansas City. His last appearance in Kansas City...
2. Marion Talley Marion Talley File contains newspaper clippings about Marion Talley (1906-1983), opera singer and actress.
3. N. DeRubertis N. DeRubertis
4. Hans Schwieger Hans Schwieger File contains a portrait of Hans Schwieger, conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra in the mid-1900s.
5. Scott Joplin Scott Joplin Biographical information on Scott Joplin (1868-1917), one of the earliest if not the first composer of ragtime music, a precursor of jazz, born in Texas, raised in Saint Louis, and first gaining fame in...
6. Kansas City Singers Kansas City Singers File contains newspaper clippings, brochures, etc., on the local vocal group called the Kansas City Singers. The director of the group is Robert Grove.
7. Oleta Adams Oleta Adams File contains photos and information on Oleta Adams, an African American jazz singer and pianist of Kansas City, Kansas since the late 1970s. Raised in Washington and leaving for Houston in the 1980s and...
8. Robert Bennett Robert Bennett Information with photo of Robert Russell Bennett, or Robert Bennett (1891-1981), a native Kansas Citian and orchestrator for numerous Broadway musicals. Trained with Kansas City Philharmonic conductor...
9. Nadyne Brewer Nadyne Brewer File contains photos and information on Nadyne Brewer, an African American singer raised in Kansas City, Kansas and performing gospel and classical music pieces in the 1960s.
10. Thomas Brown Thomas Brown File contains a photo and information on Thomas Brown, a native of Independence, Missouri and staff organist at the Reorganized Latter Day Saints Auditorium (or RLDS Auditorium) there in the 1970s (studying...
11. City Light Orchestra City Light Orchestra File contains a photo and information on the City Light Orchestra, a jazz and swing band formed in Kansas City in 1982 that performs around the country. Led by native Kansas Citian and saxophonist Ahmad...
12. Frank Buebendorf Frank Buebendorf File contains photos and information on Francis Buebendorf, or Frank Buebendorf, a "retired University of Kansas City-Missouri music professor" and former conductor of "the Kansas City String Orchestra...
13. Charlie Parker (Bird) Charlie Parker (Bird) Photos, illustrations, and information on Charlie Parker (1920-1955), a world-famous Kansas City jazz musician nicknamed "Yardbird" or "Bird." Born in Kansas City, Kansas, and moving to Kansas City, Missouri,...
14. Local Musicians Local Musicians
15. Lafayette Tillman Lafayette Tillman File containing photos and information on Lafayette Alonzo Tillman, or Lafayette Tillman (1858-1914), the second African American police officer of Kansas City and an early barbershop singer. Native of...
16. Walter Cook Walter Cook File contains photos and information on Walter Cook, a music teacher at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music starting in 1949, native of Kansas City, Kansas, and winner of "the...
17. Kansas City Bands Kansas City Bands File contains photos, illustrations, and information on various musical bands in Kansas City history.
18. Kay Dennis Kay Dennis Photos and information on Kay Dennis, a lounge singer in Kansas City leaving for Hollywood in 1971 and returning about 1973.
19. Early Music Consort of Kansas City Early Music Consort of Kansas City File containing photos and information on the Early Music Consort of Kansas City, a local band formed about 1978 (based in the Linda Hall Library in 1990) and led by John Titterington playing music "from...
20. Marc Gottlieb Marc Gottlieb Photo and information on Marc Gottlieb, classical music conductor born in Germany and performing in Kansas City in the early 1970s.