Photos – Dan White

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VIDEO: The Fine Art of Kansas City Jazz: Photographs by Dan White.

The Pulitzer Prize winning photographer spent almost two decades photographing renowned Kansas City jazz musicians. The exhibition of 50 black and white portraits provides an intimate look at some of the artists who shaped the national and local jazz scene.  Jazz musicians have a long-standing relationship with Kansas City. Musicians who came to the city in the 1920s found a booming nightclub scene in a town openly defying Prohibition laws, making these clubs a prosperous environment for musicians on the cutting edge of jazz.
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Photography by Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer, Dan White.

For more photos and history visit the archive developed by the Department of Special Collections, Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri-Kansas City [here].