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A
August
twenty-ninth
marks
a
96
anniversary
of
the
birthday
of
jazz
legend
Charlie
bird
Parker.
Today
we
are
at
the
American
jazz
museum,
where
Charlie
Berg,
Parker
celebration,
2016
kicks
off
on
August
eighteenth
and
also
culminates
at
the
Blue
Room
on
August
27th.
Here.
To
tell
us
about
this:
10-day
multiple
venue,
neighborhood
Tourist,
Development
Fund
supported
event,
is
Pam,
haider,
Johnson
Pam.
Thank
you
for
having
us
here
at
the
Jazz
museum
and
taking
the
time
to
talk
to
us
about
this
series
of
events
that
is
huge
and
involves
so
many
different
things.
B
Actually,
on
Thursday
August,
the
18th
is
the
kickoff
for
the
Charlie
Parker
celebration
2016
and
we're
actually
going
to
start
at
City
Hall
in
the
council
chambers,
with
a
resolution
for
this
year's
celebration
and
then
later
on.
That
evening
will
be
here
at
the
American
jazz
museum
with
dr.
Ron
mccurdy
and
he's
going
to
give
a
talk
on
jazz
and
his
experiences
as
a
professional
musician
and
a
music
educator.
So
we're
looking
forward
to
that.
It's
going
to
be
just
day
after
day
after
day,
which
is
great.
B
You
know
of
different
things:
educational
and
entertainment
and
food
to
who,
and
so
we'll
be
back
at
the
American
jazz
museum.
On
the
twenty-third
with
we
remember
bird,
and
this
is
a
project
from
the
elder
statesman,
a
Kansas,
City
jazz
and
we're
featuring
the
last
living
person
that
would
know
how
Charlie
Parker
sale
and
his
mannerisms
and
things
like
that.
Her
name
is
Bernice
Todd
and
she's
97
years
old
this
year,
and
she
was
on
our
panel
last
year
and
we're
happy
to
have
her
back
this
year
as
well
as
other
historians.
B
We
also
have
a
dan
Jaffe,
who
is
a
jazz
I
call
him
my
poet
laureate
of
jazz,
and
he
has
written
some
beautiful
poetry
about
Charlie
Parker,
as
well
as
Louis,
Armstrong,
Jamie,
Chan
and
so
on.
But
he
just
really
has
a
knack,
I
believe
for
it,
as
well
as
Elvis
Gibson,
who
has
written
a
lot
of
history
stories
and
books
about
about
Kansas
City
in
general
and
DJ.
Groovy
grant
who's,
also
a
cake,
AFI
radio,
but
he's
also
I
believe
a
good
historian.
Charlie's
daughter,
Kim
Parker
is
coming
back
to
Kansas
City.
B
She
could
spend
Charlie
Parker
celebration
anywhere
in
the
world,
but
she
chooses
to
come
to
Kansas
City
every
year,
and
that
makes
us
so
so
so
happy
and
Steve
Penn.
Who
is
our
chairman
for
the
code
of
jazz
fund
as
our
moderator?
So
we
have
a
real,
well-rounded
group
of
people.
I
think
that
can
actually
talk
about
Charlie,
Parker,
one
who
actually
knew
Charlie
Parker
and
then
others
who
I
believe
have
a
good
history
of
good
knowledge
about
Parker,
as
well
as
Kansas,
City
jazz
in
general
and.
A
B
Yes,
we're
going
to
have
a,
I
would
call
historic
tours
one
project,
we're
working
with
bike
ride
casey
and
this
is
called
toward
jazz.
That's
on
saturday
august,
the
20th
and
it
kicks
off
here
at
the
American
jazz
museum,
of
course,
outside
with
all
these
bicycle
people
and
they're
going
to
go
all
over
the
area.
All
the
different
places
where
Charlie
Parker
was
and
I
understand
it's
kind
of
like
a
three-tier
approach.
B
So
if
you're
a
real
season
bike
rider,
you
can
take
the
long
one
there's
one
kind
of
in
the
middle
and
then
there's
kind
of
a
short
version,
but
who
added?
Whichever
one
that
you
choose
to
ride?
You
you'll
wind
up
back
here
in
the
eighteenth
and
vine,
historic
district
to
end
the
bike.
Tour
then,
on
Saturday
morning
before
we
go
to
the
cemetery
which
is
in
the
onion,
operated
part
of
Jackson
County
at
lincoln
cemetery,
which
is
the
21
sacks
salute.