C4RM celebrates International Jazz Day
Tue, Apr 30
|Kansas City
Join us as Center For Recorded Music celebrate International Jazz Day, Tuesday, April 30th 2024 at UMKC. We will have an afternoon of programs including special guests, classic jazz records, and live music. Admission is free to the public, but space is limited, so please register in advance.


Time & Location
Apr 30, 2024, 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Kansas City, 5100 Cherry St, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA
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Join us as Center For Recorded Music celebrate International Jazz Day, Tuesday, April 30th 2024 at UMKC. We will have an afternoon of programs including special guests, classic jazz records, and live music.
Featured Program: Noon - 2pm C4RM celebrates the 65th Anniversary of Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come hosted by our special guest, Abe Goldstien. In 1959 Ornette Coleman unleashed upon the world The Shape of Jazz to Come. This album is about mood and tone, more than structure and rhythm, and helped launch the Free Jazz movement. It is in the Library of Congress, the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of all time, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015.
Abe Goldstien is the executive director of the Community…