Detailed look at past efforts to create a jazz museum

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Groups in Kansas City had tried to establish a jazz hall of fame/museum at least since the 1960s.  In an earlier post, I told of the 1989 press conference officially presenting the city's plans. Those particular plans died but eventually led to the American Jazz Museum.

There’s plenty more to the story. So here, part one of a look at Kansas City’s convoluted path to a jazz museum, told through quotes from news clippings, documents and studies collected during my years with the Jazz Commission and the Jazz Festival.

more at kcjazzlark: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3