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Event Title: Kansas City Jazz Edit-a-thon; Date: Monday, March 5, 2018; Time: 3:00pm — 7:00pm CST; Location: Atrium at the American Jazz Museum; 1616 East 18th Street, Kansas City, MO 64108; Host institutions: Kansas City Public Library, American Jazz Museum, Kansas City Jazz Orchestra
Minton's is known for its role in the development of modern jazz, also known as bebop, where in its jam sessions in the early 1940s, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke, Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie pioneered the new music. Minton's thrived for three decades until its decline near the end of the 1960s, and its ...