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Lonnie McFadden (born 1956 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American jazz trumpet player, tap dancer, singer, songwriter, arranger, and recording artist. McFadden is known for his exuberant multi-genre performance style.
Originally, Hunt chose Columbia Blue and Orange for the Texans' uniforms, but Bud Adams chose the columbia blue for his Houston Oilers franchise. [1] Hunt reverted to red and gold for the Texans' uniforms, which even after the team relocated to Kansas City, remain as the franchise's colors to this day. [1]
The Truman Farm Home is located in a commercially developed area of Grandview, between Blue Ridge Boulevard and Interstate 49.The site consists of a farm house (built in 1894-95 after the 1867 house was destroyed by fire); a reconstructed smokehouse; the Grandview post office-turned-garage (Truman moved it to the farm to store his 1911 Stafford automobile); a restored box wagon once used on ...
The Secret of the Blue Room is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas, and Edward Arnold.A remake of the German film Geheimnis des blauen Zimmers (1932), it concerns a group of wealthy people who stay at a European mansion that features a blue room that is said to be cursed, as everyone who has stayed there has died ...
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) is a privately funded museum dedicated to preserving the history of Negro league baseball in America. It was founded in 1990 in Kansas City, Missouri, in the historic 18th & Vine District, the hub of African-American cultural activity in Kansas City during the first half of the 20th century.
Kansas City 6 is a 1981 studio album by Count Basie. Track listing "Opus Six" (Count Basie) – 6:29 "Vegas Drag" – 6:14 "Scooter" – 4:36 "Wee Baby Blues" (Pete Johnson, Big Joe Turner) – 5:33 "Blues for Little Jazz" – 4:58 "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 4:59 "Walking the Blues" (Champion Jack Dupree, Teddy McRae) – 4:48
Benjamin Moten (November 13, 1893 – April 2, 1935) [2] was an American jazz pianist and band leader born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. [3]He led his Kansas City Orchestra, the most important of the regional, blues-based orchestras active in the Midwest in the 1920s, and helped to develop the riffing style that would come to define many of the 1930s big bands.
Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra was the first Kansas City jazz band to achieve national recognition, which it acquired through national radio broadcasts. It was founded in 1918, as the Coon-Sanders Novelty Orchestra, by drummer Carleton Coon and pianist Joe Sanders.