Folly Kids Series Presents: A Jazz Journey October 20, 2010

Join with a group of stellar Kansas City musicians as we depart on a narrated journey of musical "time travel." Starting in the early 1900s, we will explore how America's "melting pot" of many cultures provided the ingredients for the development and evolution of our country's original musical art form -- jazz. We will explore how Rrgtime combined with blues from the American South to create the earliest sounds of New Orleans jazz. Journeying up the river to Chicago, we will discover hot jazz style of "The Roaring 20s." Traveling into the 1930s and the swing era, we will discover how the Kansas City style of jazz placed our hometown forever in the music history books. The exciting sounds of bebop and beyond will take us to New York and around the world as we highlight the various styles of modern jazz right up to the present.