Music
curiousKC | Where is the Charlie Parker Memorial Foundation’s Music School now?
The Charlie Parker Memorial Foundation school of music was lauded in the ’70s for getting kids “off the streets,” and “into the arts.” Local jazz artist asked: “What happened to it?”
Record Executive From KC Rejected the Beatles, Scrambled to Get Back
In the early 1960s Kansas City native Dave Dexter Jr., as a record company executive, held the first right of refusal to sign the Beatles in the United States. He rejected them. Here’s the story of how he scrambled to get them back.
Feedback: Bygone Record Store Still Echoes in Heart of Kansas
House of Sight and Sound left a lasting legacy in the Salina, Kansas, music scene.
Remembering Missouri’s ‘Woodstock’: Star-Studded 1974 Ozark Music Festival in Sedalia Subject of Film
During the summer of 1974, Missouri staged a ‘Woodstock’ of its own. The Ozark Music Festival is now the subject of a documentary.
Listyn KC Plots Comeback as Part of New Center for Recorded Music
A group of passionate local music lovers are working to establish the Center for Recorded Music, a temple of sorts to the vinyl art form, with the Listyning Room for serious contemplation at its heart.